Artiopoda - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Full reference: H. B. Whittington. 1956. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites: the Odontopleuridae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 114(6):155-288
Parent taxon: Odontopleuridae according to A. W. Owen and D. A. T. Harper 1982
See also Bruton 1965, Bruton 1966, Owen 1981 and Owen and Bruton 1980
Sister taxa: Acanthalomina, Acidaspidinae, Borkopleura, Ceratocephalinae, Ceratonurus, Dicranurus, Dudleyaspis, Gaotania, Globulaspis, Hispaniaspis, Isoprusia, Ivanopleura, Koneprusia, Koneprusiinae, Laethoprusia, Meadowtownella, Miraspidinae, Odontopleurinae, Orphanaspis, Periallaspis, Selenopeltis, Selenopeltoides, Stelckaspis, Taemasaspis, Uriarra
Subtaxa: Apianurus Boedaspis Calipernurus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Aluoja of Estonia (1 collection)
• Chazyan of Canada (10: Northwest Territories)
• Whiterockian of United States (6: New York, Vermont)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Northwest Territories), Estonia (2), Italy (1), Norway (11), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Sweden (10), United States (7: Oklahoma, Virginia)
Total: 53 collections including 61 occurrences