Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Parent taxon: Leptellinidae according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017
See also Mitchell 1977, Williams et al. 2000, Zhan and Jin 2005 and Zhan et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Anchoramena, Leptelloidinae, Leptestiininae, Palaeostrophomeninae, Tesikella
Subtaxa: Acculina Bekkerella Benignites Dulankarella Kajnaria Kilbuchomena Leptastichidia Leptellina Leptelloidea Mabella Reversella Shlyginia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (8: British Columbia, Northwest Territories collections), China (10), United States (2: Iowa)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (3)
• Uhaku of Estonia (1), Norway (1), Sweden (3)
• Chazyan of United States (4: Alabama, Tennessee)
• Whiterockian of United States (11: Nevada)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), China (4)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Australia (27), China (35), Estonia (4), Iran (4), Ireland (3), Kazakhstan (57), Kyrgyzstan (2), Latvia (1), Lithuania (2), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (11), Norway (6), the Russian Federation (17), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (21), United States (27: Alaska, California, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia), Vietnam (1)
• Ibexian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 273 collections including 318 occurrences