Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Full reference: C. E. Mitchell. 1987. Evolution and phylogenetic classification of the Diplograptacea. Palaeontology 30(2):353-405
Parent taxon: Diplograptidae according to J. Maletz 2014
See also Goldman 1995
Sister taxa: Amplexograptus, Anticostia, Cephalograptus, Corynoides, Diplograptinae, Diplograptus, Levisograptus, Parareteograptus, Rectograptus, Peiragraptinae
Subtaxa: Hustedograptus Orthograptus Paraorthograptus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (1: Yukon collection), China (4), Denmark (3), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (11: Alaska, New York)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (2), Portugal (3), Spain (2)
• Uhaku of Lithuania (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
• Arenig of China (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of United States (2: Alaska)
• Ordovician of Argentina (4), Australia (1), Belgium (2), Bolivia (1), Canada (40: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (89), the Czech Republic (1), Kazakhstan (5), New Zealand (11), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (12), Spain (1), Sweden (9), the United Kingdom (3), United States (80: Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
Total: 304 collections including 358 occurrences