Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2):41-42
Parent taxon: Ophiletoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Morris and Cleevely 1981 and Wagner 1999
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Asgardaspira Ecculiomphalinae Ecculiomphalus Lecanospira Lytospira Malayaspira Ophileta Ozarkina Rossospira
Type: Ophileta
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of United States (1: New York collection)
• Silurian of China (1), Czechia (3), United States (1: Iowa)
• Uhaku of Norway (1)
• Whiterockian of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (8: Minnesota, Nevada)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Quebec), United States (3: New York)
• Arenigian of United States (3: Utah, Virginia)
• Arenig of Argentina (3), Australia (1), Bolivia (2), China (33), United States (1: Montana)
• Dawan of China (4)
• Canadian of United States (2: Maryland)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (3), Canada (22: Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (42), Estonia (5), Malaysia (7), Norway (7), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (9), United States (80: Alaska, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Skullrockian of Canada (4: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (2: New York, Utah)
• Cambrian of United States (2: Montana)
Total: 263 collections including 311 occurrences