Artiopoda - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Parent taxon: Odontopleuridae according to J. M. Adrain and L. Ramskold 1997
See also Bruton 1965, Bruton 1966, Bruton 1967, Mergl 2014, Owen 1981, Owen and Bruton 1980 and Ramsköld and Chatterton 1991
Sister taxa: Acanthalomina, Acidaspidinae, Apianurinae, Borkopleura, Ceratocephalinae, Ceratonurus, Dicranurus, Dudleyaspis, Gaotania, Globulaspis, Hispaniaspis, Isoprusia, Ivanopleura, Koneprusia, Koneprusiinae, Laethoprusia, Meadowtownella, Miraspidinae, Orphanaspis, Periallaspis, Selenopeltis, Selenopeltoides, Stelckaspis, Taemasaspis, Uriarra
Subtaxa: Acidaspis Anacaenaspis Bojokoralaspis Charybdaspis Chlustinia Dalaspis Diacanthaspis Edgecombeaspis Eoleonaspis Funeralaspis Kettneraspis Leonaspis Odontopleura Primaspis Radiaspis
Type: Odontopleura
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (26 collections), Belgium (4), Bolivia (1), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (1), Colombia (2), Czechia (42), France (5), Germany (14), Italy (1), Morocco (30), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (7), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: Michigan, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania)
• Whitwellian of Canada (4: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (2)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Argentina (7), Australia (5), Canada (89: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon Territory), China (6), Czechia (33), Estonia (2), Greenland (2), Ireland (2), Latvia (2), Morocco (3), Poland (2), Spain (2), Sweden (9), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (22), United States (7: Arkansas, Iowa, Maine, New York, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (2)
• Uhaku of Norway (1)
• Dobrotivian of Czechia (1)
• Letna of Czechia (1)
• Liben of Czechia (1)
• Whiterockian of Norway (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (4: Québec), Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of Belgium (1), Canada (13: Northwest Territories, Quebec, Québec), China (12), Czechia (15), Estonia (2), Ireland (2), Kazakhstan (3), Latvia (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (21), Poland (1), Spain (4), Sweden (14), the United Kingdom (22), United States (74: California, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia)
• Cambrian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 555 collections including 724 occurrences