Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Parent taxon: Strophomenoidea according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017
See also Alikhova 1953, Bassett and Cocks 1974, Cocks 2010, Hoel 2011, Howe 1988, Jakobsen et al. 2014, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Macomber 1970, Mitchell 1977, Musteikis and Cocks 2004, Neuman and Bruton 1974, Oraspold 1956, Owen and Harper 1982, Phleger 1933, Popov et al. 2000, Raymond 1911, Rubel 2011, Williams et al. 2000 and Zhan et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Amphistrophiidae, Dicoelostrophiidae, Douvillinidae, Douvinella, Eopholidostrophiidae, Foliomenidae, Furcitellidae, Glyptomenidae, Idioglyptus, Leptaenoideidae, Leptodontellidae, Leptostrophiidae, Playfairia, Rafinesquinidae, Rhenostrophia, Shaleriidae, Strophomenidea, Strophonellidae, Syntrophodonta
Subtaxa: Bellimurina Chunanomena Gosaukammerella Iberomena Leptaenoideinae Nasutimena Oepikinae Opikina Orthotetinae Oxostrophomena Rafinesquinae Septomena Strophomeninae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (6 collections), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Iran (2), Italy (2), Japan (2), Oman (1), the Philippines (1), Turkey (3)
• Permian of Poland (1)
• Carboniferous of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Italy (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Morocco (1)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (12: Quebec), China (1), Ireland (1), Lithuania (2), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (11), Sweden (9), United States (4: New York)
• Dobrotivian of France (2), Spain (1)
• Uhaku of Belarus (1), Estonia (3)
• Chazyan of Canada (2: Northwest Territories), United States (4: Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Whiterockian of United States (6: Nevada, Virginia)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Arenig of China (3)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec)
• Ordovician of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Australia (6), Belarus (2), Belgium (6), Canada (266: British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunvait, Ontario, Quebec), China (45), Estonia (111), France (4), Iran (3), Ireland (2), Kazakhstan (30), Latvia (9), Lithuania (6), Mongolia (3), Norway (30), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (47), Spain (5), Sweden (13), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (41), United States (618: Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
• Tremadoc of China (1)
Total: 1345 collections including 1714 occurrences