Trilobita - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Synonyms: Hausmannia Etheridge and Mitchell 1895, Heliocephalus Delo 1935, Ommokris Holloway 1981
Parent taxon: Dalmanitidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acastavinae, Acastinae, Anchiopsis, Andreaspis, Argentopyge, Bessazoon, Blanodalmanites, Chattiaspis, Coronura, Corycephalus, Crozonaspis, 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
Subtaxa: Dalmanites (Synphoria) Dalmanites caudatus Dalmanites jupiterensis Dalmanites meeki Dalmanites oriens Dalmanites socialis Dalmanites townsendae
Type: Trilobus caudatus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (1 collection), Brazil (3), Canada (4: New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec), Colombia (1), Kazakhstan (1), United States (8: Alaska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Tennessee)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (8), Australia (2), Belarus (1), Bolivia (1), Canada (16: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec), China (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (3), Paraguay (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (3), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (32), United States (112: Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Dobrotivian of France (2)
• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Illinois)
Total: 211 collections including 233 occurrences
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