Synonym: Paraparchitacea Scott 1959 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Kloedenellocopina according to A. H. Yuan and S. Crasquin-Soleau 2007
See also Liebau 2005, Sohn 1969 and Zazzali et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Kloedenelloidea, Perprimitiacea, Sansabelloidea
Subtaxa: Coelonellidae Ikeyaparchitidae Paraparchitidae
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (1 collection), Hungary (3), Iran (2), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Permian of Australia (16), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (138), Greece (9), Guatemala (5), Hungary (7), Iran (17), Israel (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (6), Saudi Arabia (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Thailand (24), United States (6: Kansas, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (2: Alberta), China (3), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (84), United States (40: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of China (4), France (4), Poland (18), United States (11: Michigan, New York, Ohio)
• Jaani of Estonia (1)
• Silurian of Estonia (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), United States (2: Oklahoma)
Total: 425 collections including 560 occurrences