Trilobita - 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, 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)
• Amgan of Kazakhstan (2)
• Solvan of the Czech Republic (2)
• Cambrian of Antarctica (2), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), Greenland (2), India (1), Kazakhstan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Norway (4), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (5: Alaska, Arizona, New York, Vermont)
Total: 37 collections including 41 occurrences