Tergomya - Kiringellida - Hypseloconidae
Alternative spelling: Hypselconidae
Synonyms: Hypseloconacea Knight 1956, Hypseloconellacea Knight 1956, Kirengellidae Rozov 1975, Pygmaeoconidae Horný 2006, Pygmaeoconinae Horný 2006, Romaniellidae Rozov 1975
Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2):41-42
Parent taxon: Hypseloconoidea according to J. C. W. Cope and J. O. R. Ebbestad 2024
See also Bjalyy 1973, Dzik 2010, Feng et al. 2000, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Horný 1963, Horný 2006, Knight and Yochelson 1960, Ponder et al. 2020, Rozov 1975, Runnegar and Jell 1976, Starobogatov 1970, Stinchcomb 1986, Stinchcomb and Angeli 2002, Stinchcomb and Jung Echols 1966 and Wahlman 1992
Sister taxon: Shelbyoceridae
Subtaxa: Cambrioconus Celtopileus Cornuella Costulaconus Gasconadeoconus Gayneoconus Hypseloconus Kirengella Knightoconus Orthoconus Ozarkoconus Paraceratoconus Proteroconus Pygmaeoconus Shelbyoceras Yochelsonella
Type: Hypseloconus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Czechia (3 collections), North Korea (2), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (15: Missouri, New York, Texas, Vermont, Virginia)
• Cambrian of Antarctica (2), Australia (2), China (1), Greenland (3), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (21: Alabama, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, South Dakota , Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
Total: 60 collections including 81 occurrences