Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Parent taxon: Chonetoidea according to M. Rubel 2011
See also Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Anopliidae, Chonetidae, Chonostrophiidae, Daviesiellidae, Eodevonariidae, Rugosochonetidae
Subtaxa: Parachonetinae Protochonetinae Strophochonetinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (3 collections), Argentina (5), Australia (22), Belarus (1), Bolivia (7), Brazil (3), Canada (21: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (36), the Czech Republic (17), France (26), Kyrgyzstan (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (12), Spain (8), Ukraine (9), United States (18: Nevada, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Uruguay (1), Vietnam (6)
• Whitwellian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (1), Lithuania (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia)
• Silurian of Argentina (10), Australia (8), Belarus (6), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (35: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Québec), China (3), the Czech Republic (14), Estonia (22), Iran (1), Ireland (2), Latvia (3), Lithuania (39), Norway (2), Paraguay (1), Peru (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (6), Sweden (12), Ukraine (17), the United Kingdom (84), United States (13: Indiana, Maine, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma), Venezuela (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (17: Quebec)
Total: 511 collections including 599 occurrences