Tentaculita - Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Parent taxon: Nowakiida according to N. M. Farsan 1994
Sister taxa: Crassilinidae, Peneauiidae, Striatostyliolinidae, Undastriatostyliolinidae
Subtaxa: Alexiella Cepanonowakia Dmitriella Kinderlina Nowakia Stylionowakia Sulcatonowakia Turkestanella Variella Viriatellina
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (2 collections), Australia (2), Austria (3), Canada (13: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Ontario, Yukon), China (44), Czechia (98), France (2), Germany (14), Italy (2), Malaysia (3), Morocco (39), Myanmar (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (9), Spain (16), Tajikistan (6), Thailand (3), United States (21: Alaska, Michigan, New York), Uzbekistan (3), Vietnam (6)
• Silurian of Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 291 collections including 441 occurrences