Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Synonym: Vysocania Vanek and Vokác 1997
Parent taxon: Illaenidae according to D. L. Bruton and A. W. Owen 1988
See also Bruthansová 2003, Jell and Adrain 2002, Owen and Bruton 1980, Owen and Harper 1982 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amphoriops, Bumastoides, Bumastus, Caudillaenus, Cryptonymus, Dysplanus, Eastonillaenus, Ectillaenus, Harpillaenus, Hyboaspis, Illaeninae, Illaenurus, Illaenus, Nanillaenus, Octillaenus, Panderinae, Parillaenus, Platillaenus, Ptilillaenus, Thaleops, Ulugtella, Zbirovia, Zdicella
Subtaxa: Illaenus linnarssoni Stenopareia acymata Stenopareia balclatchiensis Stenopareia catathema Stenopareia duffyae Stenopareia glaber Stenopareia globosus Stenopareia glochin Stenopareia grandis Stenopareia linnarssonii Stenopareia oviformis Stenopareia perceensis Vysocania iberica
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (47: Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon Territory collections), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (6), Greenland (4), Mexico (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (7), the United Kingdom (19), United States (28: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin)
• Dobrotivian of Spain (1)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (3: Quebec), United States (34: New York)
• Whiterockian of Canada (16: Quebec), United States (9: New York, Vermont)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (3: Québec), Norway (1)
• Ordovician of Belgium (9), Canada (9: Quebec), China (9), the Czech Republic (9), Kazakhstan (2), Malaysia (1), Morocco (3), Norway (52), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (4), Sweden (11), the United Kingdom (20), United States (6: Virginia)
Total: 324 collections including 338 occurrences
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