Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Parent taxon: Strophomenoidea according to L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper 2015
See also Cocks 2005, Cocks 2010, Williams et al. 2000 and Zhan et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Amphistrophiidae, Dicoelostrophiidae, Douvillinidae, Douvinella, Eopholidostrophiidae, Foliomenidae, Furcitellidae, Idioglyptus, Leptaenoideidae, Leptodontellidae, Leptostrophiidae, Playfairia, Rafinesquinidae, Rhenostrophia, Shaleriidae, Strophomenidae, Strophomenidea, Strophonellidae, Syntrophodonta
Subtaxa: Cheramomena Glyptomeninae Glyptomenoides Lateriseptomena Minutomena Teratelasminae
Type: Glyptomena
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of China (7 collections), the Czech Republic (1)
• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Chazyan of Canada (2: Quebec), United States (18: Maryland, New York, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Arenig of China (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (4), Australia (6), Canada (6: Ontario, Quebec), China (34), the Czech Republic (7), Estonia (7), Kazakhstan (23), Latvia (8), Myanmar (2), Norway (11), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (16), Spain (1), Sweden (3), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (33), United States (22: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 217 collections including 239 occurrences