Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Alternative spelling: Ceratocephala (Leonaspis)
Parent taxon: Odontopleurinae according to L. Ramsköld and B.D.E. Chatterton 1991
See also Bruton 1966, Bruton 1967, Jell and Adrain 2002, Richter and Richter 1926, Sepkoski 2002 and Whittington 1956
Sister taxa: Acidaspis, Anacaenaspis, Charybdaspis, Dalaspis, Diacanthaspis, Edgecombeaspis, Funeralaspis, Kettneraspis, Odontopleura, Primaspis, Radiaspis
Subtaxa: Acanthaloma Leonaspis (Kettneraspis) Leonaspis (Leonaspis) Leonaspis centrina Leonaspis clavatus Leonaspis crenata Leonaspis haddanei Leonaspis hoernesii Leonaspis jenkinsi Leonaspis leonhardi Leonaspis mutica Leonaspis olini Leonaspis rattei Leonaspis spinicurva Leonaspis wellingtonensis
Type: Odontopleura leonhardi
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (18 collections), Bolivia (1), Canada (9: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), the Czech Republic (35), France (5), Germany (6), Italy (1), Morocco (26), Spain (6), United States (2: Nevada)
• Whitwellian of Canada (4: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Argentina (2), Australia (4), Canada (24: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon Territory), China (3), the Czech Republic (23), Estonia (1), Greenland (2), Latvia (2), Morocco (3), Poland (1), Spain (2), Sweden (4), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (11), United States (3: Maine, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (2)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (2: Québec), Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Quebec), China (9), the Czech Republic (1), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (1), Spain (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (5)
Total: 230 collections including 264 occurrences
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