Conodonta - Belodellida - Belodellidae
Parent taxon: Belodellida according to L. J. Pyle and C. R. Barnes 2002
See also Clark et al. 1981 and Sweet 1988
Sister taxa: Ansellidae, Besselodus, Dapsilodontidae
Subtaxa: Belodella Dvorakia Stolodus Walliserodus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Australia (113), Austria (150), Bulgaria (15), Canada (6: Nunavut, Ontario), China (3), Czechia (3), France (3), Germany (12), Greece (1), Italy (38), Mongolia (1), Morocco (121), Myanmar (1), Poland (7), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (1), Thailand (1), United States (58: Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (32), Thailand (1)
• Silurian of Australia (80), Austria (20), Canada (150: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon Territory), Czechia (20), Estonia (69), Greece (1), Greenland (45), Italy (26), Latvia (3), Lithuania (14), Norway (8), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (14), Sweden (64), the United Kingdom (7), United States (221: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin)
• Chazyan of United States (1: Tennessee)
• Whiterockian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories), Norway (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Billingen of Estonia (2), the Russian Federation (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), China (3), Norway (1)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (7: Nunavut)
• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (6: Nunavut)
• Ordovician of Austria (4), Canada (29: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec), China (6), Germany (1), Greenland (3), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Mongolia (1), Poland (17), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Sweden (11), United States (11: Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah)
Total: 1452 collections including 1876 occurrences