Artiopoda - Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Parent taxon: Solenopleuridae according to D. L. Bruton and D. A. T. Harper 2000
See also Pour and Popov 2009
Sister taxa: Abakanopleura, Acanthometopus, Acrocephalaspis, Acrocephalina, Agraulinae, Aiaiaspis, Aidarella, Albansia, Aldanaspis, Badulesia, Balticoglaucus, Bigranulella, Catasolenopleura, Changqingia, Conicephalus, Crusoia, Denaspis, Eilura, Ejinaspis, Herse, Huzhuia, Hyperoparia, Inouyella, Kabuqiia, Karagandoides, Keeleaspis, Lashushania, Levisia, Lianglangshania, Liosolenopleura, Lophodesella, Maiaspis, Manublesia, Mataninella, Menocephalites, Minupeltis, Munija, Munijia, Neoacrocephalites, Neosolenopleurella, Nilegna, Ninaspis, Oreisator, Paracrocephalites, Parasolenopleura, Pardailhania, Perneraspis, Pingluia, Proavus, Pseudosolenoparia, Rimouskia, Rina, Sao, Shanghaiaspis, Solenoparia, Solenoparops, Solenopleurella, Solenopleuropsis, Squarrosoella, Trachoparia, Usumunaspis, Wafangdiania, Yabeia
Subtaxa: Jincella Solenopleura
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories collection)
• Cambrian of Antarctica (2), Canada (3: New Brunswick), Czechia (1), France (1), Greenland (2), India (1), Kazakhstan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Norway (3), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (1), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (3), United States (5: Alaska, Arizona, New York, Vermont)
• Solvan of Czechia (2), Norway (1)
• Amgan of Kazakhstan (2)
Total: 43 collections including 49 occurrences