Lophophorata - Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Parent taxon: Tentaculitida according to N. M. Farsan 1994
Sister taxa: Contractenidae, Costatulitidae, Dentiannulatidae, Gotlandellitidae, Hemicricus, Laminitidae, Ljaschenkovites, Longulatus, Multiconidae, Samarites, Sektionitidae, Uniconidae, Vjalovites
Subtaxa: Chelmastanites Prolationus Seretites Sokolites Tentaculites Tractabilis Tractabilopsis Tripartites Ukrainites Uniformites Zendadjanites
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (3 collections), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), United States (1: Indiana)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (5), Algeria (2), Antarctica (1), Australia (27), Bolivia (1), Brazil (42), Canada (35: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (2), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (5), France (4), Germany (12), Ghana (1), Luxembourg (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), Peru (1), Poland (21), South Africa (13), Spain (4), Turkey (2), Ukraine (13), the United Kingdom (5), United States (114: Alaska, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennyslvania), Uruguay (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of China (1), Mauritania (1), Spain (1)
• Silurian of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (64: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec), Estonia (1), Ireland (2), Morocco (1), Norway (12), Paraguay (3), Peru (1), Poland (3), Spain (3), Sweden (28), the United Kingdom (18), United States (57: California, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Canadian of United States (1: Virginia)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (1), Latvia (3), Norway (4), the United Kingdom (18), United States (12: Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 564 collections including 633 occurrences