Artiopoda - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Synonyms: Cancapolia Rusconi 1954, 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, Tortello 2023 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 decorus Olenoides evansi Olenoides expansus Olenoides hubeiensis Olenoides maladensis Olenoides nevadensis Olenoides nitidus Olenoides obrutchevi Olenoides octaspinus Olenoides paraptus Olenoides pennsylvanicus Olenoides proa Olenoides pugio Olenoides serratus Olenoides skabelundi Olenoides spencei Olenoides steptoensis Olenoides tranans Olenoides vali Olenoides wahsatchensis
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (1), Canada (15: Alberta, Alberta-British Columbia, Brithish Columbia, British Columbia), China (44), Greenland (10), Kazakhstan (5), Kyrgyzstan (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (33: Idaho, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 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)
Total: 131 collections including 148 occurrences
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