Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Alternative spelling: Illaenus (Bumastus)
Parent taxon: Illaenidae according to E. Warburg 1925
See also Holloway and Lane 2016, Jell and Adrain 2002, Raymond 1916 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amphoriops, Bumastoides, Caudillaenus, Cryptonymus, Dysplanus, Eastonillaenus, Ectillaenus, Harpillaenus, Hyboaspis, Illaeninae, Illaenurus, Illaenus, Nanillaenus, Octillaenus, Panderinae, Parillaenus, Platillaenus, Ptilillaenus, Stenopareia, Thaleops, Ulugtella, Zbirovia, Zdicella
Subtaxa: Bumastus (Bumastella) Bumastus (Bumastus) Bumastus agmakros Bumastus barriensis Bumastus comes Bumastus cuniculus Bumastus dayi Bumastus decipiens Bumastus dispassus Bumastus graftonensis Bumastus holei Bumastus indeterminatus Bumastus insignis Bumastus ioxus Bumastus kattoi Bumastus lioderma Bumastus longiops Bumastus niagarensis Bumastus orbicaudatus Bumastus porrectus Bumastus rowleyi Bumastus sakoi Bumastus tenuis Bumastus trentonensis Bumastus vulsus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Argentina (1 collection), Canada (4: Ontario, Quebec), the Czech Republic (12), Estonia (1), Greenland (4), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (12), Sweden (8), Ukraine (7), the United Kingdom (2), United States (52: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New York, Wisconsin)
• Niagaran of United States (2: Indiana, New York)
• Ordovician of Australia (3), Canada (17: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (9), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (2), United States (32: Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Llandeilo of China (1)
• Chazy of United States (1: New York)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: California)
Total: 188 collections including 223 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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