Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Parent taxon: Plectambonitoidea according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Cocks 2010, Congreve et al. 2015, Howe 1988, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Macomber 1970, Mitchell 1977, Musteikis and Cocks 2004, Owen and Harper 1982, Popov et al. 2000, Rõõmusoks 1959, Rubel 2011, Williams et al. 2000, Zhan and Jin 2005 and Zhan et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Aegiromenidae, Allwynellidae, Alwynellidae, Bimuriidae, Christianiidae, Grorudiidae, Hesperomenidae, Leptellinidae, Leptestiidae, Paucicostella, Plectambonitidae, Strophodontidae, Syndielasmatidae, Taffiidae, Tafflidae, Xenambonitidae, Anoptambonitidae
Subtaxa: Anechophragminae Hadroskolos Jingshanella Kozlowskites Olgambonites Ptychoglyptinae Sowerbyellinae Xenambonitinae Zhilgyzambonites
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (10 collections), Canada (1: Quebec), China (22), the Czech Republic (25), Germany (8), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (2), Poland (1), Spain (5), Ukraine (7), United States (1: New York)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (10), Lithuania (7)
• Niagaran of Canada (3: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Germany (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Argentina (5), Australia (17), Belarus (1), Bolivia (1), Canada (69: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (4), the Czech Republic (8), Estonia (26), Germany (1), Iran (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (33), Norway (46), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (14), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (161), United States (97: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)
• Dobrotivian of France (1), Spain (1)
• Uhaku of Belarus (2), Estonia (7), Latvia (1), Lithuania (2)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), United States (5: Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Whiterockian of United States (10: California, Nevada, Virginia)
• Volkhov of the Russian Federation (20)
• Arenig of China (3)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (8: Québec), Norway (1), United States (5: California)
• Ordovician of Argentina (4), Australia (13), Belarus (5), Belgium (11), Canada (208: British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Northwest Terrorities, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (67), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (149), France (1), Iran (3), Ireland (13), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (55), Latvia (19), Lithuania (39), Mongolia (2), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Norway (56), the Russian Federation (25), Spain (4), Sweden (17), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (178), United States (553: Alaska, California, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Tremadoc of China (1)
Total: 2106 collections including 2518 occurrences