Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Parent taxon: Camarotoechioidea according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Jones 1982
Sister taxon: Septalariidae
Subtaxa: Alairhynchinae Basilicorhynchinae Calvinariinae Fenestrirostrinae Innuitellinae Leiorhynchinae Stenometoporhynchinae
Type: Leiorhynchus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (3: Yukon collections), Mexico (3), the Russian Federation (2), United States (9: Idaho, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Czechia (3), Iran (3), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (25: Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (6), Australia (3), Canada (27: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Ontario, Yukon), China (16), Colombia (1), Czechia (4), France (1), Germany (5), Iran (6), Libya (10), Morocco (1), Poland (7), the Russian Federation (3), United States (553: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Quebec, Québec), Czechia (3), Spain (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 707 collections including 755 occurrences