Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Parent taxon: Draboviidae according to L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper 2015
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Hints 1975, Hints 2012, Hints et al. 2012, Mitchell 1977, Rubel 2011 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Destombesium, Monelasmiinae
Subtaxa: Boticium Dalmanellopsis Diorthelasma Draborthis Drabovia Drabovinella Eodiorthelasma Fascifera Hirnantia Kinnella Megasalopina Nocturnellia Oanduporella Orthiella Pionodema Protomendacella Salopina Sphenophragmus Talentella Tunariorthis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Argentina (4 collections), Australia (9), Bolivia (2), Canada (23: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (6), Germany (2), Poland (1), Ukraine (2), United States (22: Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Morocco (3)
• Silurian of Argentina (4), Australia (12), Belarus (3), Canada (63: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Quebec, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (7), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (18), France (1), Iran (1), Ireland (3), Lithuania (14), Morocco (1), Norway (22), Poland (1), Spain (4), Sweden (4), Ukraine (7), the United Kingdom (70), United States (5: Nevada, New York)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Bolivia (1), Canada (4: Quebec)
• Ordovician of Argentina (6), Australia (2), Belarus (2), Bolivia (2), Canada (16: Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (41), the Czech Republic (17), Estonia (23), France (7), Ireland (5), Kazakhstan (9), Latvia (29), Lithuania (3), Morocco (5), Myanmar (1), Norway (13), Peru (2), Poland (2), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (12), Sweden (22), Thailand (1), Turkey (3), the United Kingdom (28), United States (118: Alaska, California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1)
• Chazy of United States (1: Alabama)
• Arenig of China (4), the United Kingdom (1)
• Dawan of China (2)
• Klabava of the Czech Republic (1)
Total: 712 collections including 882 occurrences