Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Synonym: Neolenus Matthew 1899
Parent taxon: Dorypigidae according to A. R. Palmer 1954
See also Benton 1993, Jell and Adrain 2002, Pour and Popov 2009, Sepkoski 2002, Sundberg 1994 and Walcott 1908
Sister taxa: Atdabanella, Basocephalus, Bonnaria, Bonnia, Bonniella, Bonnima, Bonniopsis, Dorypygina, Dorypyginae, Fordaspis, Hicksia, Holteria, Holyoakia, Kooteniella, Kooteniellina, Liokootenia, Mengzia, Metakootenia, Ogygopsis, Olenoidestranans, Paraolenoides, Popigaia, Prokootenia, Protypus, Shipaiella, Strettonia, Tabatopygellina, Tolanaspis
Subtaxa: Neolenus inflatus Neolenus intermedius Neolenus superbus Olenoides abnormis Olenoides brighamensis Olenoides buttsi Olenoides comptus Olenoides curticei Olenoides evansi Olenoides expansus Olenoides hubeiensis Olenoides nevadensis Olenoides obrutchevi Olenoides octaspinus Olenoides paraptus Olenoides pennsylvanicus Olenoides serratus Olenoides skabelundi Olenoides steptoensis Olenoides tranans Olenoides vali Olenoides wahsatchensis
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Antarctica (1 collection), Canada (7: Alberta-British Columbia, Brithish Columbia, British Columbia), China (44), Greenland (10), Kazakhstan (5), Kyrgyzstan (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (21: Idaho, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Amgan of Kazakhstan (3), Kyrgyzstan (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Solvan of Canada (4: Newfoundland and Labrador), Kazakhstan (2), United States (7: Nevada, Pennsylvania)
• Delamaran of Canada (6: British Columbia), United States (12: Idaho, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia)
Total: 127 collections including 143 occurrences
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