Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Meganterididae
Parent taxon: Stringocephaloidea according to A. Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Centronellidae, Guangshunia, Rhipidiothyrididae, Stringocephalidae
Subtaxa: Adreninae Antistrixinae Brachyzyginae Meganteridinae Mutationellinae
Type: Meganteris
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (1 collection), Antarctica (5), Argentina (2), Australia (6), Belarus (2), Belgium (1), Bolivia (20), Brazil (33), Canada (3: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (4), Germany (7), Guinea-Bissau (1), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (8), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (9), Spain (9), Ukraine (9), United States (8: Alaska, Nevada, New York), Uruguay (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Spain (1)
• Silurian of China (1)
Total: 138 collections including 187 occurrences