Superfamily PSEUDOAULOPHACOIDEA Riedel, 1967 sensu De Wever et al. (2001)

Pseudoaulophacidae Riedel, 1967a: 148; 1967b: 295;1971: 654-655.

Pseudoaulophacilae – Pessagno 1971a: 19 [as a subsuperfamily]; 1972: 273, 296 [as a subsuperfamily]; 1973: 50, 56 [as a subsuperfamily]; 1976: 26 [as a subsuperfamily]; 1977b: 930-931 [as a subsuperfamily]. — Blome 1984: 349, 352 [as a subsuperfamily].

Patulibracchiilae – De Wever et al. 2001: 138-139 ( sensu emend.) [as a subsuperfamily].

Lobatiradiata [pars] Afanasieva & Amon in Afanasieva, Amon, Agarkov & Boltovskoy, 2005: S283 [as an order of Class Stauraxonaria]. — Afanasieva & Amon 2006: 125.

DIAGNOSIS. — Pseudoaulophacoidea characterized by a flat, lenticular, disc-shaped shell or by 3 primary arms or spines originating in the prismatic microsphere.

REMARKS

The known families in this superfamily are the Patulibracchiidae, Pseudoaulophacidae and Suttoniidae, from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic as well as the Angulobracchiidae Baumgartner 1980 and Tritrabidae Baumgartner 1980 in the Mesozoic (Dumitrica et al. 2013). Afanasieva et al. (2005) established a new order, Lobatiradiata, for the flat-shaped polycystines with three or more arms. These include the Angulobracchiidae, Patulibracchiidae, Hexaporobrachiidae, Hagiastridae, Suttoniidae and Myelastridae . However, a strong homeomorphy among them was repeatedly observed since 1980s.