Conodonta - Ozarkodinida - Kockelellidae
Parent taxon: Ozarkodinida according to V. Viira and R. Einasto 2003
See also Clark et al. 1981
Sister taxa: Anchignathodontidae, Elictognathidae, Ellisoniidae, Gamachignathus, Gondolellidae, Gondolellidea, Gondolelloidea, Idiognathodontidae, Microzarkodina, Ozarkodinina, Palmatolepididae, Periodon, Plectodina, Pterospathodontidae, Spathognathodontidae, Spathognathodontodae, Vjalovognathidae
Subtaxa: Ancoradella Ctenognathodus Kockelella
Type: Kockelella
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Greece (1 collection)
• Silurian to Devonian of Italy (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (1), Australia (8), Austria (16), Canada (27: British Columbia, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario), the Czech Republic (9), Estonia (98), Greece (2), Greenland (28), Italy (6), Lithuania (32), Malaysia (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (5), Sweden (132), Thailand (1), Ukraine (7), the United Kingdom (12), United States (171: Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin), Western Sahara (2)
• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (5: Nunavut)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Québec), Greenland (6), Sweden (1)
Total: 579 collections including 710 occurrences