Conodonta - Belodellida - Belodellidae
Parent taxon: Belodellidae according to L. J. Pyle and C. R. Barnes 2002
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Stouge 1984
Sister taxa: Coelocerodontus, Dvorakia, Stolodus, Walliserodus
Subtaxa: Belodella cooperi Belodella resima Belodella silurica
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Australia (110), Austria (148), Bulgaria (15), Canada (6: Nunavut, Ontario), China (3), the Czech Republic (2), France (3), Germany (12), Greece (1), Italy (33), Mongolia (1), Morocco (121), Myanmar (1), Poland (6), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (1), Thailand (1), United States (45: Indiana, Nevada, Ohio, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (32), Thailand (1)
• Silurian of Australia (73), Austria (19), Canada (15: Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Ontario), the Czech Republic (20), Greece (1), Greenland (24), Italy (22), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (60), United States (62: Illinois, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas)
• Chazyan of United States (1: Tennessee)
• Whiterockian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories), Norway (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Québec), China (6), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (5)
Total: 871 collections including 1097 occurrences
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