Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Parent taxon: Delthyrididae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Delthyridinae, Kozlowskiellininae
Subtaxa: Acanthospirifer Aldanispirifer Howellella Howelloidea Orientospirifer Pseudokymatothyris Qiansispirifer Quiringites Rufispirifer
Type: Howellella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (1 collection), Argentina (1), Australia (40), Austria (2), Belarus (2), Canada (63: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Yukon), China (44), Czechia (12), France (22), Germany (11), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mongolia (4), Morocco (4), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (18), Spain (4), Ukraine (11), United States (74: Alaska, California, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Vietnam (9)
• Jaani of Estonia (6), Lithuania (3)
• Niagaran of Canada (3: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Australia (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Argentina (1), Australia (11), Belarus (3), Canada (73: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (31), Czechia (4), Estonia (21), Ireland (2), Jordan (2), Latvia (1), Lithuania (27), Mexico (3), Mongolia (6), Morocco (1), Norway (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (11), Spain (2), Sweden (26), Ukraine (10), the United Kingdom (54), United States (81: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan and Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)
Total: 717 collections including 799 occurrences