Artiopoda - Harpetida - Harpididae
Parent taxon: Harpetida according to J. D. Beech and J. C. Lamsdell 2021
See also Adrain 2011, Harrington and Leanza 1957 and Jell and Adrain 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Arraphus Dictyocephalites Harpides Harpidoides Kitatella Loganopeltis Loganopeltoides Metaharpides Paraharpides Pscemiaspis
Type: Harpides
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of Canada (4: Newfoundland and Labrador collections)
• Chazyan of Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Langevoja of Sweden (2)
• Billingen of Sweden (1)
• Arenig of China (2), Sweden (2)
• Ordovician of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Canada (7: Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec), China (1), Czechia (2), France (1), Lithuania (1), Morocco (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (6), United States (3: Alaska, Nevada)
• Cambrian of Canada (12: Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Yukon), China (1), Kazakhstan (5), the Russian Federation (5)
Total: 64 collections each including a single occurrence