Parent taxon: Neograptina according to J. Maletz 2014
See also Melchin et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Normalograptidae, Retiolitoidea
Subtaxa: Dimorphograptidae Monograptidae
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), Czechia (10), Kazakhstan (1), Malaysia (1), Morocco (8), Myanmar (1), Poland (6), Tajikistan (4), Thailand (2), Ukraine (4), 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), Belgium (1), Canada (65: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Quebec, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (55), Czechia (43), Denmark (14), France (19), Greenland (1), Guinea (1), Ireland (1), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (3), Libya (1), Lithuania (23), Malaysia (2), Morocco (34), Poland (16), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (9), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia (10), Spain (3), Sweden (2), Tajikistan (2), Thailand (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (33), United States (69: Alaska, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (5), Western Sahara (3)
• Dobrotivian of Spain (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Ordovician of Australia (2), Canada (7: Nunavut, Yukon), Malaysia (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Idaho)
Total: 603 collections including 1529 occurrences