Harpidella M'Coy 1849 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Proetida - Aulacopleuridae

Synonyms: Harpidella (Rhinotarion) Whittington and Campbell 1967, Rhinotarion Whittington and Campbell 1967 [objective synonym]

Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1849. On the classification of some British fossil Crustacea with notices of new forms in the university collection at Cambridge. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 4:392-414

Parent taxon: Aulacopleurinae according to A. W. Owen and D. A. T. Harper 1982

See also Adrain and Chatterton 1995, Jell and Adrain 2002, Owen 1981, Owen and Bruton 1980, Owens and Fortey 2009, Sepkoski 2002, Thomas and Owens 1978 and Whittington and Campbell 1967

Sister taxa: Otarionides, Pseudotrinodus

Subtaxa: Harpidella (Harpidella) Harpidella beggi Harpidella isoplates Harpidella megalops Harpidella minima Harpidella occidentalis Harpidella tridens

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Type: Harpes megalops

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (2 collections), Canada (2: Ontario), the Czech Republic (6), Morocco (1), United States (1: Iowa)

• Silurian of Algeria (1), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Quebec), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (1), Greenland (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (1), Morocco (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (10), United States (8: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Oklahoma, Wisconsin)

• Ordovician of Canada (3: Quebec), Estonia (1), Ireland (5), Norway (22), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (10), United States (3: Virginia)

Total: 104 collections including 111 occurrences

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