†family Strophochonetidae Muir-Wood 1962 (lamp shell)

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

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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

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