Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Parent taxon: Odontopleurida according to J. M. Adrain 2011
See also Feist 2002, Owens and Fortey 2009 and Whittington et al. 1997
Sister taxa: Clustinia, Cyrtopora
Subtaxa: Acanthalomina Acidaspidinae Apianurinae Borkopleura Ceratocephalinae Ceratonurus Chlustinia Dicranurus Dudleyaspis Eoleonaspis Gaotania Globulaspis Hispaniaspis Isoprusia Ivanopleura Koneprusia Koneprusiinae Laethoprusia Meadowtownella Miraspidinae Odontopleurinae Orphanaspis Periallaspis Proceratocephala Selenopeltis Selenopeltoides Stelckaspis Taemasaspis Uriarra
Type: Odontopleura
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Givetian of France (1 collection)
• Devonian of Australia (35), Belgium (4), Bolivia (1), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (1), Colombia (2), the Czech Republic (52), France (9), Germany (18), Italy (2), Morocco (44), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (6), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Michigan, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania), Uzbekistan (1)
• Whitwellian of Canada (4: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (2)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Algeria (1), Argentina (7), Australia (9), Austria (1), Canada (109: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon Territory), China (9), the Czech Republic (42), Estonia (3), Greenland (4), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Latvia (4), Mexico (2), Morocco (3), Norway (2), Poland (2), Spain (2), Sweden (13), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (39), United States (22: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, New York, Oklahoma, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (2)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (2), France (5), Morocco (4), Portugal (4), Spain (8)
• Uhaku of Norway (1)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (2)
• Aluoja of Estonia (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (13: Northwest Territories)
• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), Norway (1), United States (7: New York, Vermont)
• Fennian of France (1)
• Arenigian of China (1)
• Arenig of the United Kingdom (3)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (4: Québec), Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (10), Belgium (1), Canada (19: Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (14), the Czech Republic (18), Estonia (4), France (1), Iran (2), Ireland (7), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (3), Latvia (1), Morocco (5), New Zealand (1), Norway (34), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (10), Sweden (28), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (40), United States (87: California, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia)
• Cambrian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 836 collections including 1314 occurrences