Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Parent taxon: Encrinurinae according to W. R. Evitt and R. P. Tripp 1977
See also Harrington and Leanza 1957, Jell and Adrain 2002, Nikolaisen 1961, Phleger 1933, Raymond 1916, Sepkoski 2002 and Warburg 1925
Sister taxa: Billevittia, Brianurus, Coronocephalus, Cromus, Encrinuraspis, Encrinuroides, Erratencrinurus, Fragiscutum, Frammia, Frencrinuroides, Johntempleia, Kailia, Physemataspis, Senticucullus, Walencrinuroides
Subtaxa: Encrinurus confusevarus Encrinurus deomenos Encrinurus diabolus Encrinurus expansus Encrinurus fimbriatus Encrinurus hagshawensis Encrinurus hastula Encrinurus hyperboreus Encrinurus ishii Encrinurus jini Encrinurus lamonti Encrinurus laurentinus Encrinurus longi Encrinurus mamelon Encrinurus mullochensis Encrinurus multisegmentatus Encrinurus niquivilensis Encrinurus nodai Encrinurus nodosarius Encrinurus octocostatus Encrinurus octonarius Encrinurus priscus Encrinurus punctatus Encrinurus reflexus Encrinurus rosensteinae Encrinurus similis Encrinurus spicatus Encrinurus squarrosus Encrinurus stateratus Encrinurus stenorhachis Encrinurus striatus Encrinurus subtrigonalis Encrinurus tosensis Encrinurus trispinosus Encrinurus yokokurensis
Type: Entomostracites punctatus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of China (1 collection), Tajikistan (1)
• Whitwellian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (3)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian to Devonian of Austria (1)
• Silurian of Australia (12), Belarus (2), Canada (96: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (8), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (3), Greenland (3), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Japan (5), Latvia (2), Lithuania (3), Norway (1), Sweden (15), Tajikistan (4), Ukraine (17), the United Kingdom (51), United States (45: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Wisconsin)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: California)
• Arenig of Argentina (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (4: British Columbia, Québec)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (3), Belgium (1), Canada (11: Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (1), Norway (2), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (6), United States (6: Nevada, New York, Wisconsin)
Total: 322 collections including 346 occurrences
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