Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Alternative spelling: Amphion (Asaphus)
Synonym: Schizophorus Balashova 1953
Parent taxon: Asaphinae according to A. W. Owen and D. L. Bruton 1980
See also Henningsmoen 1960, Jell and Adrain 2002, M'Coy 1849, Sepkoski 2002 and Tjernvik and Johansson 1980
Sister taxa: Lonchobasilicus, Ogygitella, Pseudobasilicus, Pseudomegalaspis
Subtaxa: Asaphus (Ampyx) Asaphus (Asaphus) Asaphus (Neoasaphus) Asaphus (Onchometopus) Asaphus (Platypeltis) Asaphus (Subasaphus) Asaphus caribouensis Asaphus caudatus Asaphus curiosa Asaphus expansus Asaphus gigas Asaphus heckeri Asaphus homfrayi
Type: Entomostracites expansus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Dobrotivian of Portugal (1 collection)
• Uhaku of Belarus (2), Latvia (1), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (9)
• Chazyan of United States (15: New York)
• Volkhov of Lithuania (3), the Russian Federation (31), Sweden (2)
• Valaste of Sweden (7)
• Hunderum of Sweden (3)
• Langevoja of Sweden (4)
• Arenigian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), China (5), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Belarus (3), Canada (1: Manitoba), China (6), Estonia (7), Finland (1), Latvia (3), Lithuania (10), Norway (24), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (13), Sweden (72), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 236 collections including 269 occurrences
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