Parent taxon: Monotoidei according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Nevesskaja 2009
Sister taxa: Eurydesmatoidea, Monotidae, Oxytomoidea
Subtaxa: Buchiidae Dolponellidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Motuan of New Zealand (12 collections)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (15), Argentina (2), Australia (10), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (56: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (12), Ecuador (2), France (4), Germany (10), Greenland (44), Indian Ocean (1), Madagascar (1), Mozambique (3), New Zealand (39), Papua New Guinea (2), the Russian Federation (115), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (26), United States (126: Alaska, California, Oregon, Utah)
• Heterian of New Zealand (1)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of New Caledonia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (7: Alaska, California, Oregon)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (7), Azerbaijan (2), Canada (19: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (6), Cuba (6), East Timor (1), Germany (17), Greenland (77), Indonesia (7), Mexico (2), New Zealand (40), Norway (1), Papua New Guinea (5), the Russian Federation (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (37), the United Kingdom (7), United States (113: Alaska, California, Oregon)
• Triassic of China (1), Italy (1), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (30), Pakistan (3), United States (1: Idaho)
• Permian of Australia (6), Nepal (9)
Total: 896 collections including 1339 occurrences