†subfamily Cheirurinae Hawle and Corda 1847 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae

Full reference: I. Hawle and A. J. C. Corda. 1847. Prodrom einer Monographie der böhmischen Trilobiten. Abhandlungen Kongligischen Böhemischen Gesellschaft der Wiossenschaften, V. Folge 5(5):1-176

Parent taxon: Cheiruridae according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 1991

See also Adrain et al. 1995, Edgecombe et al. 1999, Nikolaisen 1961, Owen 1981, Phleger 1933 and Raymond 1916

Sister taxa: Acanthoparyphinae, Actinopeltis, Anasobella, Ancyginaspis, Arcticeraurinella, Areia, Areiaspis, Borealaspis, Bornholmaspis, Ceraurinium, Cerauromeros, Cerauropeltis, Ceraurus, Chacomurus, Cheirurus, Chiozoon, Contracheirurus, Crotalocephalides, Crotalocephalina, Crotalocephalus, Cyrtometopinae, Cyrtometopus, Deiphon, Deiphoninae, Didrepanon, Eccoptochilinae, Forteyops, Foulonia, Gabriceraurus, Hammannopyge, Hapsiceraurus, Heliomera, Heliomeroides, Hemisphaerocoryphe, Holia, Holotrachelus, Hyrokybe, Junggarella, Kawina, Kolymella, Krattaspis, Ktenoura, Laneites, Lehua, Onycopyge, Osekaspis, Parayoungia, Parisoceraurus, Pateraspis, Patomaspis, Pilekiinae, Placoparina, Pompeckia, Proromma, Protocerauroides, Pseudocheirurus, Radiurus, Ratinkaspis, Reraspis, Sphaerexochinae, Sphaexerochinae, Stubblefieldia, Sycophantia, Turantyx, Valongia, Whittakerites, Xylabion, Xystocrania, Youngia, Zazvorkaspis, Kinderlania

Subtaxa: Azyptyx Ceraurinella Ceraurinus Hadromeros Leviceraurus Paraceraurus

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Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (1 collection)

• Silurian of Canada (24: Northwest Territories, Quebec), the Czech Republic (3), Greenland (1), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (9), United States (3: Alaska, Arkansas, Wisconsin)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (2: Québec)

• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (4), Canada (56: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (12), Estonia (4), France (1), Ireland (2), Kazakhstan (2), Latvia (1), Morocco (1), Norway (13), the Russian Federation (28), Sweden (15), the United Kingdom (8), United States (36: Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa/Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia)

• Chazy of United States (3: New York)

• Llandeilo of China (1), the United Kingdom (3)

• Whiterockian of Canada (16: Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Quebec), United States (14: Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Vermont)

• Castlemainian of Ireland (1)

Total: 270 collections including 316 occurrences

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