Alternative spelling: Clisospiracea
Full reference: S. A. Miller. 1889. North American geology and palaeontology for the use of amateurs, students and scientists 1-664
Parent taxon: Mimospirida according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975 and Knight et al. 1960
Sister taxon: Mimospirina
Subtaxa: Clisospiridae Onychochilidae
Type: Clisospiridae
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (2 collections)
• Givetian of Germany (1)
• Devonian of Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Ontario), Czechia (7)
• Silurian of Czechia (2), Sweden (10), United States (3: Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee)
• Uhaku of Estonia (1), Sweden (2)
• Letna of Czechia (1)
• Chazyan of United States (1: Vermont)
• Whiterockian of United States (5: Nevada)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Quebec), China (1), Czechia (13), Estonia (1), Morocco (2), Norway (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (1), Sweden (14), the United Kingdom (3), United States (6: Missouri, Nevada, Texas, Vermont, illinois)
• Cambrian of Antarctica (1), Australia (4), China (1), Germany (1), United States (10: Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Utah, Wisconsin)
Total: 101 collections including 126 occurrences