Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Parent taxon: Odontopleuridae according to J. M. Adrain and L. Ramskold 1997
See also Bruton 1965, Bruton 1966, Bruton 1967, Owen 1981, Owen and Bruton 1980 and Ramsköld and Chatterton 1991
Sister taxa: Acanthalomina, Acidaspidinae, Apianurinae, Borkopleura, Ceratocephalinae, Ceratonurus, Chlustinia, Dicranurus, Dudleyaspis, Eoleonaspis, Gaotania, Globulaspis, Hispaniaspis, Isoprusia, Ivanopleura, Koneprusia, Koneprusiinae, Laethoprusia, Meadowtownella, Miraspidinae, Orphanaspis, Periallaspis, Proceratocephala, Selenopeltis, Selenopeltoides, Stelckaspis, Taemasaspis, Uriarra
Subtaxa: Acidaspis Anacaenaspis Charybdaspis Dalaspis Diacanthaspis Edgecombeaspis 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), the Czech Republic (42), France (5), Germany (14), Italy (1), Morocco (30), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (7), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: 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), the Czech Republic (33), Estonia (2), Greenland (2), Ireland (1), 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)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1)
• Uhaku of Norway (1)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (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 (11), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (2), Ireland (2), Kazakhstan (3), Latvia (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: 541 collections including 706 occurrences