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 (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (11: Alaska, New York)
• Uhaku of Lithuania (1)
• Dobrotivian of Czechia (2), Portugal (3), Spain (2)
• 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), Czechia (1), Kazakhstan (5), New Zealand (11), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (12), Spain (1), Sweden (9), the United Kingdom (3), United States (79: Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
Total: 303 collections including 355 occurrences