Parent taxon: Heterobranchia according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017
See also Beesley 1998
Sister taxa: Allogastropoda, Anomalorbis, Palaeoalvania, Stuoraxidae, Acteonoidea, Architectonicoidea, Euthyneura, Streptacidoidea, Misurinella, Architectibranchia, Nerineoidea
Subtaxa: Cornirostridae Hyalogyrinidae Orbitestellidae Valvatidae
Ecology: epifaunal
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Canada (2: Ontario), Egypt (5), France (2), Greece (1), Poland (5), Portugal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (9: California, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Pliocene of Croatia (2), Turkey (2)
• Miocene of Austria (4), Croatia (3), France (1), Germany (2), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), Romania (1), Spain (2), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of France (4), United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Pakistan (1), United States (4: Washington)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), China (7), Denmark (1), France (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), China (25), France (2), India (1), Madagascar (1), Mongolia (1), Poland (8), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Montana)
• Jurassic of China (4), Germany (10), Morocco (1), Poland (8), Portugal (9), the United Kingdom (10), United States (7: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Italy (4), Pakistan (1)
• Devonian of Saudi Arabia (1)
Total: 177 collections including 201 occurrences