Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Taffiidae
Alternative spelling: Taffidae
Parent taxon: Plectambonitoidea according to M. Pedersen and C. M. Ø. Rasmussen 2019
See also Benedetto 2015, Hansen and Holmer 2011, Neuman and Bruton 1974 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Aegiromenidae, Allwynellidae, Alwynellidae, Bimuriidae, Christianiidae, Grorudiidae, Hesperomenidae, Leptellinidae, Leptestiidae, Paucicostella, Plectambonitidae, Sowerbyellidae, Strophodontidae, Syndielasmatidae, Tafflidae, Xenambonitidae, Anoptambonitidae
Subtaxa: Ahtiellinae Bockelia Halirhachis Leptellinae Pelonomiinae Taffiinae Tinopena Ukoainae
Type: Taffia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Aluoja of Estonia (3 collections)
• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Newfoundland), United States (8: Nevada)
• Fennian of Canada (1: New Brunswick), China (1), Malaysia (1)
• Volkhov of the Russian Federation (1)
• Valaste of Estonia (2)
• Hunderum of Sweden (2)
• Arenig of Argentina (7), Canada (1: New Brunswick), China (17), the United Kingdom (1)
• Dawan of China (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (6), Australia (8), Canada (6: British Columbia, Newfoundland, Quebec), China (31), Estonia (5), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (12), Malaysia (6), Norway (11), Peru (3), the Russian Federation (25), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (3), United States (15: Alabama, Montana, Nevada, Tennessee)
• Tremadoc of United States (1: Montana)
• Ibexian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 186 collections including 240 occurrences