Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Parent taxon: Gypiduloidea according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Jin 2005, Jin and Chatterton 1997 and Savage and Baxter 1995
Sister taxon: Enantiosphenidae
Subtaxa: Conchidiellinae Devonogypinae Geniculigypinae Gypidulinae Ivdeliniinae Ivdelininae Levigatellinae Schegultania Sieberellinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Afghanistan (6 collections), Australia (16), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Canada (124: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (16), the Czech Republic (13), France (9), Germany (12), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (4), Myanmar (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (67), Spain (6), Tajikistan (10), Thailand (1), Ukraine (1), United States (128: Alaska, Arizona, California, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Uzbekistan (7), Vietnam (4)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec), United States (1: Ohio)
• Silurian of Australia (5), Belarus (3), Canada (61: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (3), the Czech Republic (17), Estonia (7), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (11), Mexico (3), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (14), Sweden (20), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (29), United States (54: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)
Total: 687 collections including 946 occurrences