Craniata - Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Parent taxon: Craniopsioidea according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Cocks 2019, Mitchell 1977, Popov et al. 2000 and Temple 1987
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Craniops Discinopsis Lingulapholis Paracraniops Pseudopholidops Wrightiops
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta collection)
• Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (5), Brazil (6), Canada (3: New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec), China (1), Colombia (1), United States (51: Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
• Jaani of Estonia (2), Lithuania (2)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Brazil (1), Canada (10: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec), China (9), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (3), Ireland (1), Latvia (2), Lithuania (25), Mexico (5), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (79), United States (38: California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Ordovician of Canada (20: Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (8), the Czech Republic (2), Estonia (9), Iran (2), Kazakhstan (6), Myanmar (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (38), United States (53: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
• Cambrian of Greenland (2)
Total: 408 collections including 414 occurrences