Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
Parent taxon: Glossograptidae according to X. Chen et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Glossograptinae, Kalpinograptinae, Lonchograptus, Nanograptus, Paraglossograptus
Subtaxa: Cryptograptus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of United States (1: Alaska collection)
• Dobrotivian of Czechia (1)
• Whiterockian of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Arenig of China (1)
• Ningkuo of China (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Bolivia (1), Canada (5: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (15), Lithuania (3), New Zealand (12), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (23: Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma), Venezuela (1)
Total: 77 collections including 78 occurrences