Alternative spelling: Clisospiracea
Full reference: S. A. Miller. 1889. North American geology and palaeontology for the use of amateurs, students and scientists 1-664
Parent taxon: Mimospirida according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975 and Knight et al. 1960
Sister taxon: Mimospirina
Subtaxa: Clisospiridae Onychochilidae
Type: Clisospiridae
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (2 collections)
• Devonian of Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Ontario), the Czech Republic (7), Germany (1)
• Silurian of the Czech Republic (2), Sweden (10), United States (3: Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee)
• Ordovician of China (1), the Czech Republic (15), Estonia (2), Morocco (1), Norway (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (1), Sweden (14), the United Kingdom (3), United States (4: Nevada, Texas, illinois)
• Chazy of United States (1: Vermont)
• Llandeilo of Sweden (2)
• Whiterockian of United States (5: Nevada)
• Cassinian of Canada (1: Quebec), United States (2: Missouri, Vermont)
• Klabava of the Czech Republic (1)
• Cambrian of Antarctica (1), Australia (4), China (1), Germany (1), United States (10: Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Utah, Wisconsin)
Total: 102 collections including 126 occurrences