Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Parent taxon: Chonetoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Hoare 1961 and Jin and Chatterton 1997
Sister taxa: Anopliidae, Chonostrophiidae, Daviesiellidae, Eodevonariidae, Ogorella, Rugosochonetidae, Strophochonetidae, Strophochonetinae
Subtaxa: Chonetinae Dagnachonetinae Devonochonetinae Notiochonetinae Retichonetinae
Type: Chonetes
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic to Jurassic of United States (1: Alaska collection)
• Triassic of China (1)
• Permian of Australia (2), Bolivia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (9), India (2), Iran (3), Mexico (9), Nepal (1), Pakistan (13), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (8), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (59: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: California)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (2), Australia (5), Belize (2), Canada (8: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (1), Germany (5), India (3), Libya (1), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (64), United States (226: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Givetian of France (6)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), the United Kingdom (2)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (1), Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Australia (26), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (30), Brazil (11), Canada (40: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (33), Colombia (26), the Czech Republic (6), France (24), Germany (33), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (14), Luxembourg (1), Mauritania (3), New Zealand (6), Poland (12), the Russian Federation (7), South Africa (12), Spain (8), Tajikistan (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (717: Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Uruguay (1), Uzbekistan (2), Venezuela (8), Vietnam (7)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Argentina (2), Australia (6), Bolivia (1), China (3), India (2), Mexico (1), Spain (3), Sweden (8), the United Kingdom (6), United States (40: Maryland, New York, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Ordovician of Venezuela (1)
Total: 1561 collections including 2041 occurrences