Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida
Parent taxon: Rhynchonellida according to P. Musteikis and T. L. Modzalevskaya 2002
See also Jin and Chatterton 1997
Sister taxa: Ancistrorhynchoidea, Antistrixia, Apodosiidae, Areella, Asiarhynchia, Atlanticocoelia, Barzellinia, Basilioloidea, Beichuanrhynchus, Borealirhynchia, Camarotoechioidea, Camarotoechioides, Cardinirhynchiidae, Corrugatimediorostrum, Cyclothyridae, Dimerelloidea, Donella, Dorsisinus, Hemithiridoidea, Hypoleiorhynchus, Isjuminelina, Jacoburbirostridae, Lambdarinoidea, Langkawia, Laosia, Latirhynchia, Leiorhynchoides, Linxiangxiella, Miaohuangrhynchus, Mongolirhynchia, Neimongolella, Norelloidea, Omolonorhynchia, Paratetratomia, Paryphorhynchopora, Payuella, Perakia, Platyglossariorhynchus, Plekonina, Pompoecilorhynchus, Praecyclothyrididae, Protorhyncha, Pseudonudirostra, Pseudopugnax, Pugnacoidea, Rhynchonella guadalupae, Rhynchonella mundula, Rhynchonelloidea, Rhynchoporoidea, Rhynchotetradoidea, Rhynchotrematoidea, Rhynchotretaoides, Rhynchotretina, Sacothyropsis, Salairotoechia, Sichuanrhynchus, Stenoscismatidina, Straelenia, Tanerhynchia, Tatjamoa, Togaella, Uncinuloidea, Uralotoechia, Wellerelloidea, Wulungguia, Yanbianella, Yarirhynchia, Yunshanella
Subtaxa: Camarotoechiidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (1: British Columbia collection)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (3), Australia (10), Canada (8: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (1), China (1), Ireland (1), Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (26), United States (64: Alaska, Arizona, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Virginia)
• Devonian of Algeria (5), Australia (2), Austria (1), Brazil (3), Canada (26: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (9), Colombia (2), the Czech Republic (12), France (6), Germany (2), Morocco (4), New Zealand (1), Poland (15), the Russian Federation (12), Spain (1), Tajikistan (3), Ukraine (2), United States (247: Alaska, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Montana, and Wyoming, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (2), Vietnam (2)
• Jaani of Lithuania (9)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Ohio)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Afghanistan (1), Austria (1), Canada (94: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (10), the Czech Republic (4), Estonia (1), France (1), Ireland (2), Lithuania (18), Mauritania (1), Norway (1), Paraguay (1), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (1), Sweden (10), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (15), United States (117: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Chazyan of United States (2: New York)
• Ordovician of United States (19: Georgia, New York, Virginia)
Total: 794 collections including 901 occurrences