Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Parent taxon: Glyptomenidae according to L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper 2015
See also Cocks 2010, Mitchell 1977 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Cheramomena, Glyptomenoides, Lateriseptomena, Minutomena, Paromalomena, Teratelasminae
Subtaxa: Avdeevella Buminomena Bystromena Glyptomena Hesperinia Linostrophomena Mjoesina Pionomena Platymena Pomeromena Primotimena Proboscisambon Qianomena Resupinsculpta
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of China (7 collections), Czechia (1)
• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Chazyan of Canada (2: Quebec), United States (18: Maryland, New York, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Arenig of China (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (4), Canada (6: Ontario, Quebec), China (13), Czechia (6), Estonia (5), Kazakhstan (13), Latvia (3), Myanmar (1), Norway (10), the Russian Federation (16), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (29), United States (21: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 160 collections including 168 occurrences