Parent taxon: Tentaculitida according to N. M. Farsan 1994
See also Comniskey and Ghilardi 2018
Sister taxa: Contractenidae, Cornulitida, Costatulitidae, Dentiannulatidae, Gotlandellitidae, Hemicricus, Laminitidae, Ljaschenkovites, Longulatus, Microconchida, Multiconidae, Samarites, Sektionitidae, Uniconidae, Vjalovites
Subtaxa: Chelmastanites Prolationus Seretites Sokolites Tentaculites Tractabilis Tractabilopsis Tripartites Ukrainites Uniformites Zendadjanites
Type: Tentaculites
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 (44), Canada (35: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (3), Colombia (1), Czechia (5), France (4), Germany (13), Ghana (1), Luxembourg (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), Peru (1), Poland (21), South Africa (13), Spain (4), Türkiye (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)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Czechia (1), Estonia (1), Latvia (3), Norway (4), the United Kingdom (18), United States (12: Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Canadian of United States (1: Virginia)
Total: 568 collections including 638 occurrences