Rhynchonellata - Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Parent taxon: Skenidioidea according to M. Rubel 2011
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Benedetto 2003, Hansen and Holmer 2011, Mitchell 1977, Temple 1987, Williams et al. 2000 and Wright 1964
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Crossiskenidium Protoskenidioides Replicoskenidioides Skenidioides Skenidium Tropidothyris
Type: Skenidium
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Givetian of France (5 collections)
• Devonian of Australia (5), Canada (30: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (1), the Czech Republic (8), Italy (1), Morocco (3), Poland (8), Ukraine (4), United States (19: Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Tennessee)
• Whitwellian of Canada (4: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (7), Lithuania (4)
• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Poland (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Australia (3), Belarus (3), Canada (24: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (5), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (34), Iran (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (32), Mexico (1), Norway (24), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (6), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (97), United States (47: California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), United States (1: Alabama)
• Whiterockian of United States (4: Nevada)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), China (3), the United Kingdom (5)
• Arenigian of Argentina (4)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Norway (1)
• Ordovician of Australia (4), Belgium (9), Canada (12: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (29), Estonia (11), Ireland (9), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (4), Latvia (1), Lithuania (5), Myanmar (1), Norway (16), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (5), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (56), United States (65: Alaska, California, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin)
Total: 643 collections including 674 occurrences