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 the Czech Republic (1 collection), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (1)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (1: Nunavut), the Czech Republic (1), Iran (1)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (2)
• Uhaku of Sweden (5)
• Liben of the Czech Republic (2)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Chazyan of United States (4: Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Volkhov of Estonia (4)
• Arenig of the United Kingdom (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (13), Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), China (1), the Czech Republic (10), Estonia (8), Iran (2), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (30), the United Kingdom (27), United States (2: New York, Tennessee)
• Tremadoc of Iran (5), Poland (1), United States (1: New York)
• Cambrian of Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 140 collections including 142 occurrences