Trilobita - Proetida - Otarionidae
Parent taxon: Otarionini according to A. P. Van Viersen et al. 2019
See also Adrain and Kloc 1997, Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Thomas and Owens 1978 and Warburg 1925
Sister taxon: Otarion
Subtaxa: Cyphaspis agayuara Cyphaspis bluhmi Cyphaspis boninoi Cyphaspis brevimarginatus Cyphaspis ceratophthalmus Cyphaspis dabrowni Cyphaspis eberhardiei Cyphaspis eximia Cyphaspis foumzguidensis Cyphaspis globosus Cyphaspis hamidi Cyphaspis heisingi Cyphaspis heissae Cyphaspis ihmadii Cyphaspis juergenhollandi Cyphaspis khraidensis Cyphaspis kippingi Cyphaspis lerougei Cyphaspis maharchensis Cyphaspis rommersheimensis Cyphaspis slocomi Cyphaspis smeenki Cyphaspis tadachachtensis Cyphaspis unguloides Cyphaspis walteri
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (2 collections), Belgium (3), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (11), Morocco (18), United States (5: Alaska, Iowa, Oklahoma), Uzbekistan (2)
• Silurian of Canada (6: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Indiana, New York, Tennessee)
• Ordovician of Sweden (3), United States (5: Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada)
Total: 62 collections including 77 occurrences
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