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)
• Uhaku of Estonia (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (3)
• Dobrotivian of Czechia (4)
• Liben of Czechia (1)
• Chazyan of United States (4: Alabama, Tennessee)
• Whiterockian of United States (11: Nevada)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), China (4)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Australia (28), China (36), Czechia (1), Estonia (4), Iran (4), Ireland (3), Kazakhstan (58), 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: 281 collections including 328 occurrences