Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Parent taxon: Gypidulidae according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997 and Jones 1982
Sister taxa: Conchidiellinae, Devonogypinae, Geniculigypinae, Ivdeliniinae, Ivdelininae, Levigatellinae, Schegultania, Sieberellinae
Subtaxa: Amsdenina Ascanigypa Breviseptum Cadudium Carinagypa Caryogyps Galeatagypa Gashaomiaoia Gypidula Gypidulina Gypiduloides Lysigypa Novozemelia Physemella Plicogypa Sieberella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Givetian of the Russian Federation (1 collection), United States (1: Missouri)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (2), Australia (13), Austria (1), Belgium (14), Canada (123: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (13), Czechia (14), France (9), Germany (11), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (2), Myanmar (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (52), Spain (5), Tajikistan (9), Thailand (1), Ukraine (1), United States (146: Alaska, Arizona, California, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Uzbekistan (7), Vietnam (4)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (2)
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec), United States (1: Ohio)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Australia (5), Belarus (3), Canada (55: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (3), Czechia (17), Estonia (5), Ireland (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (11), Mexico (3), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (14), Sweden (20), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (29), United States (55: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia), Venezuela (1)
Total: 682 collections including 832 occurrences