Alternative spelling: Subulitacea
Parent taxon: Murchisoniina according to P. J. Wagner 2022
See also Allison 1955, Bouchet et al. 2005, Knight et al. 1960, Nützel et al. 2000 and Ponder and Warén 1988
Sister taxa: Loxonematoidea, Murchisonioidea, Straparollinoidea, Trochonematoidea
Subtaxa: Ischnoptygmatidae Subulitidae
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2), United States (8: Nevada, New Mexico, Texas)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (2: California)
• Carboniferous of United States (9: Arizona, California)
• Devonian of Australia (4), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic (3), France (3), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (3), United States (8: Alaska, New York, Ohio)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Ontario), China (1), the Czech Republic (3), Greenland (1), Norway (2), Sweden (4), Ukraine (1), United States (10: Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Canada (61: Manitoba, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (1), Estonia (21), Germany (1), Greenland (2), Malaysia (3), North Korea (1), Norway (2), Sweden (1), United States (79: Alaska, California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Chazy of United States (5: New York)
• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (2: Nevada)
• Cassinian of Canada (2: Quebec), the United Kingdom (1), United States (12: Missouri, Vermont)
Total: 265 collections including 497 occurrences