Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Parent taxon: Dalmanellidae according to M. Rubel 2011
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Hints 1975, Williams et al. 2000 and Zhan and Jin 2005
Sister taxa: Cincinnetina, Cortezorthinae, Crassiorina, Dalmanella, Dalmanellid, Dalmanellinae, Isorthinae, Onniella, Prokopiinae, Templeellinae
Subtaxa: Dedzetina Fascicostella Fascizetina Karlicium Molongella Parmorthina Resserella Visbyella Zlichopyramis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (8), Belarus (1), Canada (3: Yukon), China (1), Czechia (8), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (2), Mongolia (1), Morocco (4), New Zealand (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (6), United States (1: Nevada)
• Jaani of Estonia (18), Lithuania (4)
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec)
• Silurian of Argentina (6), Australia (3), Belarus (3), Canada (49: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon Territory), China (3), Czechia (13), Estonia (11), Lithuania (31), Mexico (12), Norway (12), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (22), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (52), United States (117: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (4)
• Ordovician of Canada (7: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario), China (8), Czechia (5), Estonia (1), Italy (4), the Netherlands (1), Sweden (3), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (11: California, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, Virginia)
Total: 459 collections including 523 occurrences