Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Parent taxon: Strophomenoidea according to L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper 2015
See also Cocks 2005, Cocks 2010, Williams et al. 2000 and Zhan et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Amphistrophiidae, Dicoelostrophiidae, Douvillinidae, Douvinella, Eopholidostrophiidae, Foliomenidae, Furcitellidae, Idioglyptus, Leptaenoideidae, Leptodontellidae, Leptostrophiidae, Playfairia, Rafinesquinidae, Rhenostrophia, Shaleriidae, Strophomenidae, Strophomenidea, Strophonellidae, Syntrophodonta
Subtaxa: Cheramomena Glyptomeninae Glyptomenoides Lateriseptomena Minutomena Teratelasminae
Type: Glyptomena
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of China (7 collections), Czechia (1)
• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (2: Quebec), United States (18: Maryland, New York, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Arenig of China (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (4), Australia (6), Canada (6: Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (37), Czechia (8), Estonia (7), Kazakhstan (23), Latvia (8), Myanmar (2), Norway (11), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (16), Spain (1), Sweden (3), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (33), United States (22: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 221 collections including 244 occurrences