Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2):41-42
Parent taxon: Ophiletoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Morris and Cleevely 1981 and Wagner 1999
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Asgardaspira Ecculiomphalinae Ecculiomphalus Lecanospira Lytospira Malayaspira Ophileta Ozarkina Rossospira
Type: Ophileta
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of United States (1: New York collection)
• Silurian of China (1), the Czech Republic (3), United States (1: Iowa)
• Uhaku of Norway (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Quebec), United States (3: New York)
• Whiterockian of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (8: Minnesota, Nevada)
• Fennian of Malaysia (7)
• Arenigian of United States (3: Utah, Virginia)
• Arenig of Argentina (3), Australia (1), Bolivia (2), China (33), United States (1: Montana)
• Dawan of China (4)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (3), Canada (21: Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (36), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (5), Germany (1), Norway (7), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (9), United States (77: Alaska, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Canadian of United States (2: Maryland)
• Tremadoc of China (6), United States (3: Missouri, Texas, Utah)
• Skullrockian of Canada (4: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (2: New York, Utah)
Total: 262 collections including 310 occurrences