Trilobita - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Parent taxon: Dalmanitoidea according to J. M. Adrain 2011
See also Dean 1983 and Whittington et al. 1997
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acastavinae Acastinae Anchiopsis Andreaspis Argentopyge Bessazoon Blanodalmanites Chattiaspis Coronura Corycephalus Crozonaspis Dalmanites Dalmanitina Dalmanitininae Dalmaniturus Daytonia Delops Dreyfussina Duftonia Fenestraspis Forillonaria Francovichia Furacopyge Gamonedaspis Glyptambon Huntoniatonia Kazachstania Lygdozoon Malladaia Morgatia Mucronaspis Neoprobolium Odontocephalus Odontochile Ormathops Phalangocephalus Preodontochile Prodontochile Reussiana Roncellia Schoharia Synphoria Synphoriinae Synphoroides Toletanaspis Trypaulites Zeliszkellinae Zlichovaspis
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (3 collections), Australia (6), Bolivia (4), Brazil (6), Canada (8: New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec), China (2), Colombia (2), the Czech Republic (12), France (1), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (14), South Africa (4), Spain (2), United States (38: Alaska, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Australia (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Algeria (1), Argentina (8), Australia (8), Belarus (1), Bolivia (2), Canada (18: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec), China (7), the Czech Republic (2), Ireland (1), Latvia (3), Mexico (2), Paraguay (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (3), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (48), United States (122: Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Argentina (4), Australia (1), Canada (8: Quebec, Québec), China (40), the Czech Republic (36), Estonia (12), France (45), Iran (6), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (4), Latvia (23), Malaysia (2), Morocco (31), New Zealand (1), Norway (5), Oman (1), Portugal (16), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1), Spain (41), Sweden (8), Thailand (1), Turkey (6), the United Kingdom (29), United States (7: Illinois, Maine, Virginia)
• Llandeilo of France (3), Spain (17), the United Kingdom (1)
• Klabava of the Czech Republic (2)
• Arenig of China (1), France (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 700 collections including 935 occurrences