Zeilleriidae

Belongs within: Terebratellidina.

The Zeilleriidae are a Mesozoic group of terebratulidan brachiopods in which beak ridges are typically angular and persistent (Muir-Wood et al. 1965).

Characters (Muir-Wood et al. 1965): Valves normally ligate, strangulate, bilobate or quadrilobate, or both valves convex, or brachial valve flat or concave; anterior commissure plane, rarely uniplicate or sulcate; valves normally smooth; deltidial plates conjunct or disjunct, beak ridges commonly angular and persistent, mesothyridid or permesothyridid.

<==ZeilleriidaeM-WS65
    |  i. s.: ‘Terebratula’ julica Bittner 1890HB93
    |         ‘Terebratula’ paronica Tommasi 1887HB93
    |         ‘Terebratula’ woehrmanniana Bittner 1890HB93
    |--Antiptychina Zittel 1880M-WS65
    |    `--*A. bivallata (Eudes-Deslongchamps 1859) [=Terebratula bivallata]M-WS65
    |--Camerothyris Bittner 1890M-WS65
    |    `--*C. ramsaueri (Suess 1855) [=Terebratula ramsaueri]M-WS65
    |--Cheirothyris Rollier 1919 (see below for synonymy)M-WS65
    |    `--*C. fleuriausa (d’Orbigny 1850) [=Terebratula fleuriausa]M-WS65
    |--Digonella Muir-Wood 1934M-WS65
    |    `--*D. digona (Sowerby 1815) [=Terebratula digona]M-WS65
    |--Epicyrta Eudes-Deslongchamps 1884M-WS65
    |    `--*E. eugenii (von Buch in Davidson 1850) [=Terebratula eugenii]M-WS65
    |--Fimbriothyris Eudes-Deslongchamps 1884M-WS65
    |    `--*F. guerangeri (Eudes-Deslongchamps 1856) [=Terebratula guerangeri]M-WS65
    |--Flabellothyris Eudes-Deslongchamps 1884M-WS65
    |    `--*F. flabellum (Defrance 1828) [=Terebratula flabellum]M-WS65
    |--Gusarella Prozorovskaya 1962M-WS65
    |    `--*G. gusarensis (Moisseev 1944) [=Zeilleria gusarensis]M-WS65
    |--Modestella Owen in Casey 1961M-WS65
    |    `--*M. modesta Owen 1963M-WS65, HB93
    |--Obovothyris Buckman 1927M-WS65
    |    `--*O. magnobovata Buckman 1927M-WS65
    |--Plesiothyris Douvillé 1879M-WS65
    |    `--*P. verneuili (Eudes-Deslongchamps 1864) [=Terebratula (Waldheimia) verneuili]M-WS65
    |--Somalitela Muir-Wood 1935M-WS65
    |    `--*S. ambalensis Muir-Wood 1935M-WS65
    |--Tauromenia Seguenza 1885M-WS65
    |    `--*T. polymorpha Seguenza 1885M-WS65
    |--Woroboviella Dagis 1959M-WS65
    |    `--*W. caucasica Dagis 1959M-WS65
    |--Zeillerina Kyansep 1959M-WS65
    |    `--*Z. belbekensis Moisseev 1934M-WS65
    |--Aulacothyris Douvillé 1879M-WS65
    |    |--*A. resupinata (Sowerby 1816) [=Terebratula resupinata]M-WS65
    |    `--A. uralicaG31
    |--Zeilleria Bayle 1878 [incl. Walkeria Haas 1890 (n. n.) nec Fleming 1823 nec Chatterjee 1986]M-WS65
    |    |--*Z. cornuta (Sowerby 1824) [=Terebratula cornuta]M-WS65
    |    |--Z. quadrifidaM-WS65
    |    `--Z. waterhouseiDP13
    |--Cincta Quenstedt 1868M-WS65
    |    |--*C. numismalis (Valenciennes in Lamarck 1819) [=Terebratula numismalis]M-WS65
    |    `--C. pernumismalisM-WS65
    |--Ornithella Eudes-Deslongchamps 1884 (see below for synonymy)M-WS65
    |    |--*O. ornithocephala (Sowerby 1815) [=Terebratula ornithocephala]M-WS65
    |    `--‘Terebratulites’ lagenalis von Schlotheim 1820 [=*Microthyridina lagenalis, *Microthyris lagenalis]M-WS65
    `--Rugitela Muir-Wood 1936M-WS65
         |--*R. bullata (Sowerby 1823) [=Terebratula bullata]M-WS65
         `--R. cadomensisM-WS65

Cheirothyris Rollier 1919 [incl. Neotrigonella Cossman 1910, Trigonella Quenstedt 1868 nec da Costa 1778 nec Conrad 1837 nec Hehl 1842]^M-WS65

Ornithella Eudes-Deslongchamps 1884 [incl. Microthyridina Schuchert & LeVene 1929, Microthyris Eudes-Deslongchamps 1884 non Lederer 1863]^M-WS65

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[DP13] Davies, A. M., & J. Pringle. 1913. On two deep borings at Calvert Station (North Buckinghamshire) and on the Palaeozoic floor north of the Thames. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 8, 12: 151–152.

[G31] Grabau, A. W. 1931. The Permian of Mongolia: A report on the Permian fauna of the Jisu Honguer limestone of Mongolia and its relations to the Permian of other parts of the world. American Museum of Natural History: New York.

[HB93] Harper, D. A. T., C. H. C. Brunton, L. R. M. Cocks, P. Copper, E. N. Doyle, A. L. Jeffrey, E. F. Owen, M. A. Parkes, L. E. Popov & C. D. Prosser. 1993. Brachiopoda. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 427–462. Chapman & Hall: London.

[M-WS65] Muir-Wood, H. M., F. G. Stehli, G. F. Elliott & K. Hatai. 1965. Terebratulida. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt H. Brachiopoda vol. 2 pp. H728–H857. The Geological Society of America, Inc.: Boulder (Colorado), and The University of Kansas Press: Lawrence (Kansas).