Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Parent taxon: Plectambonitoidea according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017
See also Alikhova 1953, Öpik 1932 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Aegiromenidae, Allwynellidae, Alwynellidae, Bimuriidae, Christianiidae, Grorudiidae, Hesperomenidae, Leptellinidae, Leptestiidae, Paucicostella, Sowerbyellidae, Strophodontidae, Syndielasmatidae, Taffiidae, Tafflidae, Xenambonitidae, Anoptambonitidae
Subtaxa: Leptestiinae Plectambonitinae Plectellinae Taphrodontinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of the Russian Federation (1 collection), United States (1: Nevada)
• Uhaku of Estonia (1)
• Aluoja of Estonia (4), the Russian Federation (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (19: Nevada)
• Chazyan of United States (3: Alabama, Tennessee)
• Hunderum of the Russian Federation (1)
• Valaste of Estonia (3), Sweden (1)
• Billingen of Estonia (2), the Russian Federation (16)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Belarus (1), Canada (28: Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (11), Estonia (11), Ireland (2), Kazakhstan (17), Lithuania (4), Mongolia (1), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (61), the United Kingdom (11), United States (29: California, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 232 collections including 248 occurrences