Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Synonym: Xanionurus Wgittington and Campbell 1967
Parent taxon: Odontopleurinae according to J. M. Adrain and L. Ramskold 1997
See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Ramsköld and Chatterton 1991 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acidaspis, Anacaenaspis, Charybdaspis, Dalaspis, Diacanthaspis, Edgecombeaspis, Funeralaspis, Kettneraspis, Leonaspis, Odontopleura, Primaspis
Subtaxa: Radiaspis taghonorum Xanionurus bispinosus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (2 collections), Belgium (4), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), Germany (1)
• Whitwellian of Canada (4: Northwest Territories)
• Silurian of Canada (7: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), the Czech Republic (5), United States (1: Maine)
• Ordovician of Spain (2)
Total: 29 collections including 30 occurrences
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