Strophomenoidea King, 1846

Musteikis, Petras & Cocks, L. Robin M., 2004, Strophomenide and orthotetide Silurian brachiopods from the Baltic region, with particular reference to Lithuanian boreholes, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 (3), pp. 455-482 : 459

Superfamily Strophomenoidea King, 1846

Remarks.—It is now recognised ( Rong and Cocks 1994) that only a single superfamily Strophomenoidea is needed to accommodate both denticulate and non−denticulate forms, since denticulation arose polyphyletically in several stocks and thus a separate superfamily “Stropheodontoidea” is an untenable concept. However, as a result there are now 14 families within the superfamily ( Cocks and Rong 2000), of which the Strophomenidae , Rafinesquinidae , Leptaenoideidae , Amphistrophiidae , Leptostrophiidae , Eopholidostrophiidae , Shaleriidae and Strophonellidae are all known from the Silurian of Baltica. They will be considered separately here.