Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Anopliidae
Synonym: Tornquistiinae Afanasjeva 1984
Parent taxon: Anopliidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Boucot et al. 2008 and Clapham 2015
Sister taxa: Airtoniinae, Caenanopliinae, Davoustica, Holynetinae, Klocinetes, Semicaplinoplia
Subtaxa: Adatsagochonetes Anoplia Anopliella Anopliopsis Chonetina Cyrtoniscus Demonedys Gatia Glabrichonetina Kaninochonetes Neotornquistia Parvichonetes Tornquistia Tschernovia Yagonia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (1 collection)
• Permian of Australia (18), Canada (3: Yukon), China (4), India (2), Mongolia (2), Myanmar (4), Nepal (4), Pakistan (11), the Russian Federation (29), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (11), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (16), United States (2: Alaska, Oregon)
• Namurian of Australia (1), Thailand (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of China (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (2), Australia (11), the Czech Republic (2), Ireland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (7), United States (25: Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Utah)
• Devonian of Argentina (2), Brazil (2), China (1), Germany (1), United States (12: Maine, Nevada, New York, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Ordovician of Ireland (1), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 189 collections including 197 occurrences