Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Synonym: Ptilodictyonidae Zittel 1890 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Ptilodictyina according to A. Ernst and H. A. Nakrem 2012
See also Astrova and Morozova 1956, Bassler 1911, Bassler 1953, Jiménez-Sánchez et al. 2010 and Xia et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Amurodictya, Chazydictya, Escharoporidae, Intrapora, Intraporidae, Junggarotrypa, Phragmophaeridae, Ptilotrypina, Rhinidictyidae, Stictoporellidae, Virgatellidae
Subtaxa: Cladodictya Clathropora Ensiphragma Ensipora Insignia Phaenopora Phaenoporella Ptilodictya Ptilotrypa Stellatodictya Stictoporella Stictoporina
Type: Ptilodictya
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of United States (7: Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio collections), Western Sahara (1)
• Niagaran of United States (1: New York)
• Silurian of Belarus (4), Canada (11: Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (2), the Czech Republic (2), Mexico (1), Mongolia (1), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (9), Spain (1), Sweden (12), the United Kingdom (9), United States (55: Indiana, New York)
• Dobrotivian of France (2)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Minnesota)
• Chazyan of Canada (6: Northwest Territories, Quebec), United States (1: Tennessee)
• Volkhov of the Russian Federation (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Canada (12: Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec), China (1), Estonia (6), France (2), India (7), Mongolia (3), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (16), Spain (1), Sweden (7), the United Kingdom (6), United States (38: California, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 234 collections including 320 occurrences