Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Parent taxon: Monograptoidea according to J. Maletz 2014
See also Bulman 1970, Melchin et al. 2011, Mitchell 1987 and Toro 1995
Sister taxon: Dimorphograptidae
Subtaxa: Atavograptus Campograptus Coronograptus Cucullograptus Demirastrites Diversograptus Glyptograptinae Huttagraptus Lituigraptus Monoclimacis Monograptus Neomonograptus Oktavites Pernerograptus Pribylograptus Pristiograptinae Pseudostreptograptus Rastrites Saetograptus Spirograptus Stimulograptus Streptograptus Testograptus
Type: Monograptus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (3 collections), Australia (1), Canada (13: Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon), China (10), the Czech Republic (9), Kazakhstan (1), Malaysia (1), Morocco (8), Myanmar (1), Poland (6), Tajikistan (4), Thailand (2), Ukraine (6), United States (38: Alaska, California, Nevada), Uzbekistan (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (3), China (2), Mauritania (2), Morocco (1), Poland (2)
• Silurian of Algeria (32), Andorra (1), Argentina (6), Australia (10), Austria (2), Canada (63: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Quebec, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (53), the Czech Republic (43), Denmark (13), France (14), Greenland (1), Guinea (1), Ireland (1), Jordan (2), Kazakhstan (3), Libya (1), Lithuania (23), Morocco (33), Paraguay (2), Poland (14), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (9), Spain (3), Sweden (2), Tajikistan (2), Thailand (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (25), United States (63: Alaska, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (3)
• Dobrotivian of Spain (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Ordovician of Australia (2), Canada (5: Yukon), the Russian Federation (1), United States (4: Idaho, Nevada)
Total: 562 collections including 1411 occurrences