Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Shaleriidae
Parent taxon: Strophomenoidea according to C. R. Congreve et al. 2015
See also Musteikis and Cocks 2004, Rubel 2011 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Amphistrophiidae, Dicoelostrophiidae, Douvillinidae, Douvinella, Eopholidostrophiidae, Foliomenidae, Furcitellidae, Glyptomenidae, Idioglyptus, Leptaenoideidae, Leptodontellidae, Leptostrophiidae, Playfairia, Rafinesquinidae, Rhenostrophia, Strophomenidae, Strophomenidea, Strophonellidae, Syntrophodonta
Subtaxa: Shaleria
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Canada (1: Yukon collection), Czechia (1), Poland (3)
• Silurian to Devonian of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Poland (1), Spain (1)
• Silurian of Belarus (3), Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia), Czechia (7), Estonia (11), Latvia (4), Lithuania (16), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (13), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (16), United States (3: Arkansas, Oklahoma), Venezuela (1)
Total: 92 collections including 103 occurrences