Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Parent taxon: Odontopleurinae according to A. W. Owen 1981
See also Bruton 1965, Bruton 1966, Jell and Adrain 2002, Owen and Bruton 1980 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acidaspis, Anacaenaspis, Charybdaspis, Dalaspis, Diacanthaspis, Edgecombeaspis, Funeralaspis, Kettneraspis, Leonaspis, Odontopleura, Radiaspis
Subtaxa: Primaspis (Primaspis) Primaspis (Taemasaspis) Primaspis ascitus Primaspis bestorpensis Primaspis churkini Primaspis evoluta Primaspis multispinosa
Type: Odontopleura primordialis
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (5 collections)
• Silurian of Canada (5: Northwest Territories, Québec), China (2)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1)
• Uhaku of Norway (1)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec)
• Ordovician of Belgium (1), Canada (9: Quebec, Québec), the Czech Republic (5), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (1), Norway (17), Sweden (8), the United Kingdom (7), United States (14: Idaho, Kentucky, Nevada, New York, Virginia)
Total: 79 collections including 85 occurrences
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