Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Parent taxon: Camerelloidea according to L. E. Popov et al. 2005
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Mitchell 1977, Owen and Harper 1982, Popov et al. 2000, Temple 1987, Williams et al. 2002 and Zhan and Jin 2005
Sister taxa: Camerellidae, Parallelasmatidae, Parallelelasmatidae
Subtaxa: Anastrophia Eoanastrophia Eostrophina Jolkinia Liostrophia Maydenella Parastrophina Parastrophinella Protanastrophia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (3 collections), Belarus (1), Canada (12: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (4), Czechia (3), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (3), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (1), United States (19: Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Jaani of Lithuania (2)
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Canada (20: New Brunswick, Nunavut, Quebec, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (2), Czechia (6), Estonia (11), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (9), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (57: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)
• Dobrotivian of France (2)
• Chazyan of United States (1: Alabama)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (4: Québec)
• Ordovician of Australia (3), Canada (37: British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (10), Czechia (2), Estonia (4), France (3), Kazakhstan (19), Lithuania (2), Mongolia (3), Norway (6), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (21: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
Total: 313 collections including 343 occurrences