Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Synonym: Sonoraspis Stoyanow 1952
Parent taxon: Dolichometopidae according to A. R. Palmer and R. B. Halley 1979
See also Foster 2022, Jell and Adrain 2002, Palmer 1954, Sepkoski 2002 and Stoyanow and Susuki 1955
Sister taxa: Amphoton, Anoria, Athabaskia, Athabaskiella, Basanellus, Bathyuriscidella, Bathyuriscus, Centonella, Chilometopus, Clavaspidella, Corynexochides, Deiradonyx, Dolichometopsis, Dolichometopus, Fuchouia, Hemirhodon, Hoffetella, Klotziella, Neopoliellina, Parapoliella, Poliella, Poliellaites, Poliellaspis, Poliellina, Polypleuraspis, Ptarmigania, Shanghaia, Wenkchemnia
Subtaxa: Glossopleura alabamensis Glossopleura baton Glossopleura bion Glossopleura boccar Glossopleura buttsi Glossopleura expansa Glossopleura gigantea Glossopleura intermedia Glossopleura leona Glossopleura lodensis Glossopleura mohavensis Glossopleura packi Glossopleura producta Glossopleura similaris Glossopleura sulcata Glossopleura tuta Glossopleura utahensis Glossopleura walcotti
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Delamaran of Mexico (1 collection), United States (25: California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah)
• Cambrian of Canada (2: Brithish Columbia, Northwest Territories), Greenland (2), United States (9: Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah)
Total: 39 collections including 46 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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