Parent taxon: Retziidina according to A. Williams et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Mongolospiroidea, Retzioidea
Subtaxa: Parazygidae Rhynchospirinidae
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Austria (2 collections), Canada (5: Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (1), Czechia (5), Italy (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (2), United States (91: California, Colorado, Indiana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Silurian to Devonian of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Poland (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Argentina (4), Belarus (3), Canada (7: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Yukon, Yukon Territory), Estonia (13), Latvia (2), Lithuania (14), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (10), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (8), United States (72: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (7: British Columbia)
• Ordovician of United States (1: Missouri)
Total: 271 collections including 304 occurrences