Trilobita - Proetida - Otarionidae
Alternative spelling: Otarion (Cyphaspis)
Synonym: Novakaspis Pribyl 1946
Parent taxon: Otarionini according to A. P. Van Viersen et al. 2019
See also Adrain and Kloc 1997, Chlupac 1983, Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Thomas and Owens 1978 and Warburg 1925
Sister taxon: Otarion
Subtaxa: Cyphaspis advena Cyphaspis agayuara Cyphaspis akkae Cyphaspis barrandei Cyphaspis bluhmi Cyphaspis boninoi Cyphaspis brevimarginatus Cyphaspis ceratophthalmoides Cyphaspis ceratophthalmus Cyphaspis convexum Cyphaspis dabrowni Cyphaspis eberhardiei Cyphaspis eximia Cyphaspis foumzguidensis Cyphaspis globosus Cyphaspis hamidi Cyphaspis heisingi Cyphaspis heissae Cyphaspis hoepfneri Cyphaspis hydrocephala Cyphaspis ihmadii Cyphaspis juergenhollandi Cyphaspis khraidensis Cyphaspis kippingi Cyphaspis lacrimara Cyphaspis lerougei Cyphaspis maharchensis Cyphaspis rommersheimensis Cyphaspis slocomi Cyphaspis smeenki Cyphaspis tadachachtensis Cyphaspis unguloides Cyphaspis walteri
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (3 collections), Belgium (6), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (19), France (1), Germany (12), Italy (2), Morocco (20), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), United States (5: Alaska, Iowa, Oklahoma), Uzbekistan (2)
• Whitwellian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
• Silurian of Canada (5: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Indiana, New York, Tennessee)
• Ordovician of Sweden (3), United States (5: Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada)
Total: 91 collections including 113 occurrences
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