†family Strophochonetidae Muir-Wood 1962 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae

Parent taxon: Chonetoidea according to M. Rubel 2011

See also Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Anopliidae, Chonetidae, Chonostrophiidae, Daviesiellidae, Eodevonariidae, Ogorella, Rugosochonetidae, Strophochonetinae

Subtaxa: Parachonetinae Protochonetinae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (21 collections), Belarus (1), Canada (6: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (20), the Czech Republic (3), Kyrgyzstan (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (7), United States (11: Nevada, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Vietnam (5)

• Whitwellian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)

• Jaani of Lithuania (1)

• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia)

• Silurian of Argentina (3), Australia (5), Belarus (5), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (35: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Québec), China (1), the Czech Republic (4), Estonia (21), Iran (1), Ireland (2), Latvia (3), Lithuania (34), Norway (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (2), Sweden (7), Ukraine (17), the United Kingdom (81), United States (6: Indiana, Maine, Nevada), Venezuela (1)

Total: 316 collections including 355 occurrences

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