Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Parent taxon: Dalmanelloidea according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017
See also Alikhova 1953, Bassett and Cocks 1974, Boucot and Johnson 1964, Hints 1975, Hints and Harper 2015, Howe 1988, Isaacson et al. 1976, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Macomber 1970, Mitchell 1977, Owen and Harper 1982, Rubel 1961, Rubel 2011, Temple 1987, Williams et al. 2000 and Wright 1964
Sister taxa: Angusticardiniidae, Dicoelosiidae, Harknessellidae, Heterorthidae, Hypsomoniidae, Kayserellidae, Mystrophoridae, Paurorthidae, Platyorthidae, Portranellidae, Proschizophoriidae, Rhipidomellidae, Tyronellidae
Subtaxa: Cincinnetina Cortezorthinae Crassiorina Dalmanella Dalmanellid Dalmanellinae Isorthinae Onniella Prokopiinae Resserellinae Templeellinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Indonesia (1 collection), Vietnam (1)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Givetian of France (7)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (4), Algeria (1), Argentina (3), Australia (38), Belarus (1), Belgium (2), Canada (52: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (37), Czechia (16), France (10), Germany (4), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (2), Libya (1), Mongolia (1), Morocco (6), New Zealand (5), Poland (14), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (7), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (7), United States (205: Alaska, Iowa, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Vietnam (3)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (20), Lithuania (6)
• Niagaran of Canada (3: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Mauritania (1), Poland (2), Spain (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Argentina (17), Australia (10), Belarus (7), Bolivia (1), Canada (110: British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (48), Czechia (18), Estonia (88), Ireland (3), Kazakhstan (7), Latvia (3), Lithuania (68), Mauritania (1), Mexico (15), Mongolia (9), New Zealand (1), Norway (75), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (15), Spain (4), Sweden (38), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (17), the United Kingdom (144), United States (213: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (4)
• Uhaku of Belarus (1), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Dobrotivian of France (2), Portugal (1), Spain (6)
• Liben of Czechia (1)
• Letna of Czechia (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (3: Nevada)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Quebec)
• Arenig of China (3), France (1), the United Kingdom (6)
• Dawan of China (2)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (4: Quebec), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: California)
• Ordovician of Argentina (4), Australia (10), Belarus (7), Belgium (14), Canada (113: British Columbia, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (61), Czechia (19), Estonia (107), France (4), Iran (4), Ireland (6), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (3), Latvia (58), Lithuania (50), Mongolia (2), Morocco (3), Myanmar (5), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (65), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (6), the Russian Federation (17), Spain (5), Sweden (37), Thailand (1), Türkiye (3), the United Kingdom (282), United States (899: California, Georgia, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1)
Total: 3237 collections including 3946 occurrences