Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Parent taxon: Glyptomenidae according to L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper 2015
See also Cocks 2010, Mitchell 1977 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Cheramomena, Glyptomenoides, Lateriseptomena, Minutomena, Teratelasminae
Subtaxa: Avdeevella Buminomena Bystromena Glyptomena Hesperinia Linostrophomena Mjoesina Paromalomena Pionomena Platymena Pomeromena Primotimena Proboscisambon Qianomena Resupinsculpta
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 (30), the Czech Republic (7), Estonia (7), Kazakhstan (17), Latvia (8), Myanmar (2), Norway (10), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (16), Spain (1), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (30), United States (22: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 200 collections including 212 occurrences