Lingulata - Lingulida - Paterulidae
Parent taxon: Linguloidea according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Holmer 1986, Holmer and Biernat 2002, Mitchell 1977 and Wright 1963
Sister taxa: Aulonotretidae, Bistramia, Dysoristidae, Elkaniidae, Eoobolidae, Kyrshabaktellidae, Laima, Lingulasmatidae, Lingulellotretidae, Lingulidae, Lingulipora, Obolidae, Oxlosia, Pseudolingulidae, Timalina, Tomasina, Zhanatellidae
Subtaxa: Diencobolus Paterula
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Czechia (1 collection), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (1)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (1: Nunavut), Czechia (1), Iran (1)
• Uhaku of Sweden (5)
• Dobrotivian of Czechia (2)
• Liben of Czechia (2)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Chazyan of United States (4: Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Arenig of the United Kingdom (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (13), Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), China (1), Czechia (10), Estonia (12), Iran (7), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (2), Latvia (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (30), the United Kingdom (27), United States (3: New York, Tennessee)
• Cambrian of Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 141 collections including 143 occurrences