Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Full reference: E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081
Parent taxon: Bellerophontoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Ebbestad 1999, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975 and Wahlman 1992
Sister taxa: Bellerophontidae, Blodgettinotus, Bucanellidae, Cymbulariidae, Euphemitidae, Knightitidae, Plectonotidae, Pterothecidae, Sinuitidae, Temnodiscidae, Thoralispira, Yochelsoniidae
Subtaxa: Bucaniinae Salpingostomatinae Tremanotinae Undulabucaniinae
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 collections), China (1), Pakistan (2)
• Virgilian of United States (1: Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Belgium (1), United States (1: Kentucky)
• Devonian of Australia (3), Austria (3), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic (1), Kazakhstan (1), Luxembourg (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (7: Alaska, Maine, New York)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (18: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), the Czech Republic (13), Estonia (4), Greenland (7), Norway (2), Sweden (21), the United Kingdom (5), United States (17: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin)
• Litenschichten of the Czech Republic (1)
• Niagaran of United States (2: Indiana, Ohio)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Bolivia (2), Canada (50: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (5), the Czech Republic (16), Estonia (32), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Malaysia (2), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), North Korea (3), Norway (17), Poland (1), South Korea (1), Sweden (9), the United Kingdom (14), United States (146: California, Georgia, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Chazy of Canada (4: Quebec), United States (34: New York, Vermont)
• Llandeilo of South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Bolivia (1)
Total: 467 collections including 686 occurrences