Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Parent taxon: Orthoidea according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017
See also Jakobsen et al. 2014, Paškevičius and Hints 2016, Rõõmusoks 1964, Rubel 2011, Williams et al. 2000, Wright 1964 and Wright 1982
Sister taxa: Anomalorthidae, Archaeorthidae, Bajanorthis, Bohemiellidae, Cathaysiorthidae, Glyptorthidae, Hesperonomiidae, Lycophoriidae, Malinella, Nugnecella, Orthidae, Orthidiellidae, Ottadalenites, Plaesiomyidae, Poramborthidae, Productorthidae, Skenidioidae, Tarfayidae, Turarella, Whittardiidae, Zhejiangorthis, Dolerorthidae, Dinorthidae, Toxorthidae
Subtaxa: Barbarorthis Dolerorthis Flabellitesia Hesperorthis Lordorthis Paradolerorthis Ptychopleurella Schizonema
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (6 collections), Canada (11: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Yukon), China (4), the Czech Republic (2), United States (5: Nevada, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (24), Lithuania (3)
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Belarus (4), Canada (69: British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (9), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (40), Greenland (2), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (9), Lithuania (12), Norway (39), the Russian Federation (9), Sweden (26), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (71), United States (118: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)
• Dobrotivian of France (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (9: Nevada, Oklahoma)
• Chazyan of Canada (9: Northwest Territories, Quebec), United States (10: New York, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Fennian of Canada (1: New Brunswick)
• Arenig of Canada (1: New Brunswick), China (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: British Columbia), Norway (1), United States (1: Illinois)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (18), Belarus (2), Belgium (2), Canada (68: Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunvait, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (15), Estonia (17), France (2), Ireland (12), Kazakhstan (12), Latvia (6), Lithuania (11), Mongolia (6), Norway (20), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (40), Spain (4), Sweden (5), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (72), United States (231: Alaska, California, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Ibexian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 1065 collections including 1251 occurrences