Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Elasmonematidae
Parent taxon: Euomphaloidea according to P. J. Wagner 2022
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Bouchet et al. 2017, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Jeffery 2003, Knight et al. 1960 and Kosnik 2002
Sister taxa: Anomphalidae, Euomphalidae, Helicotomidae, Holopeidae, Kitikamispira, Lesueurillidae, Microdomatidae, Neoplatyteichum, Nettersheimia, Omphalocirridae, Omphalocirrinae, Omphalotrochidae, Ornollus, Planitrochidae, Pseudophoridae, Pycnomphalidae, Rhenomphalus, Serpulospira, Tychobraheidae
Subtaxa: Anematina Discordichilus Elasmonema Hawletrochus Heidelbergeria Kimina Kyndalynia Streptotrochus
Type: Elasmonema
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (1: North Carolina collection)
• Permian of Germany (1), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (5), the Russian Federation (7), Thailand (1)
• Virgilian of United States (1: New Mexico)
• Desmoinesian of United States (2: Kansas, Oklahoma)
• Chesterian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Carboniferous of Australia (5), Canada (1: Alberta), the Russian Federation (1), United States (23: Alaska, Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Austria (1), Canada (4: Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec), the Czech Republic (2), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (13: Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, New York, Ohio)
• Litenschichten of the Czech Republic (1)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Ontario), China (5), the Czech Republic (5), Sweden (13)
• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 101 collections including 117 occurrences