Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Parent taxon: Sowerbyellidae according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Cocks 2005, Cocks 2010, Hints and Harper 2015, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Mitchell 1977, Opik 1933, Owen and Harper 1982, Rõõmusoks 1959, Rubel 2011 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Anechophragminae, Hadroskolos, Jingshanella, Kozlowskites, Olgambonites, Ptychoglyptinae, Xenambonitinae, Zhilgyzambonites
Subtaxa: Anisopleurella Dubioleptina Eochonetes Eoplectodonta Gunningblandella Plectodonta Sowerbyella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (10 collections), Canada (1: Quebec), China (22), the Czech Republic (20), Germany (8), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (2), Poland (1), Spain (5), Ukraine (7), United States (1: New York)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (10), Lithuania (7)
• Niagaran of Canada (3: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Germany (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Argentina (5), Australia (17), Belarus (1), Bolivia (1), Canada (69: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (4), the Czech Republic (8), Estonia (26), Germany (1), Iran (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (33), Norway (46), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (14), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (156), United States (97: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)
• Dobrotivian of Spain (1)
• Uhaku of Belarus (2), Estonia (7), Latvia (1), Lithuania (2)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), United States (5: Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Whiterockian of United States (10: California, Nevada, Virginia)
• Arenig of China (3)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (7: Québec), Norway (1), United States (3: California)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (12), Belarus (5), Belgium (10), Canada (206: British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Northwest Terrorities, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (63), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (149), Iran (1), Ireland (13), Kazakhstan (51), Latvia (19), Lithuania (39), Mongolia (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Norway (53), the Russian Federation (15), Spain (1), Sweden (16), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (165), United States (540: Alaska, California, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Tremadoc of China (1)
Total: 2006 collections including 2310 occurrences