Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Parent taxon: Meristellidae according to L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper 2015
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Boucot and Johnson 1964, Isaacson et al. 1976, Musteikis and Modzalevskaya 2002, Sheehan 1977 and Williams et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Hindellinae, Hyattidininae, Nikolaispira, Whitfieldellinae
Subtaxa: Arctomeristina Charionella Charionoides Hindella Imdentistella Meristella Meristelloides Meristina Pentagonia Plancella Pseudomeristina
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Givetian of United States (1: Missouri collection)
• Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (3), Bolivia (11), Brazil (3), Canada (29: British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), Colombia (2), the Czech Republic (4), France (3), Germany (1), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), United States (189: Alaska, California, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Venezuela (4), Vietnam (1)
• Jaani of Estonia (7), Lithuania (3)
• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Australia (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Argentina (3), Australia (2), Canada (55: Anticosti, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (12), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (16), Lithuania (18), Mexico (8), Mongolia (1), Norway (10), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (1), Sweden (8), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (71), United States (104: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan and Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (3)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (5: Québec)
• Ordovician of Canada (41: Quebec, Québec), China (29), the Czech Republic (5), Estonia (7), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (27), Lithuania (1), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (24), Paraguay (1), Sweden (18), the United Kingdom (21), United States (3: Illinois, Oklahoma)
Total: 790 collections including 870 occurrences