Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Lasiograptidae
Parent taxon: Diplograptina according to J. Maletz 2014
See also Bulman 1970
Sister taxa: Climacograptoidea, Dicaulograptidae, Dicranograptidae, Dicranograptoidea, Diplograptidae, Peiragraptidae
Subtaxa: Arachniograptus Archiretiolites Brevigraptus Gymnograptus Hallograptus Lasiograptus Neurograptus Nymphograptus Orthoretiolites Paraplegmatograptus Phormograptus Pipiograptus Plegmatograptus Sunigraptus Tysanograptus Yangzigraptus Yinograptus
Type: Lasiograptus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories collection), France (1), Western Sahara (1)
• Uhaku of Sweden (3)
• Dobrotivian of Portugal (2), Spain (2)
• Whiterockian of Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Belgium (1), Bolivia (1), China (31), Czechia (1), New Zealand (5), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (44: Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma)
Total: 106 collections including 138 occurrences