Trilobita - Proetida - Scharyiidae
Parent taxon: Scharyiinae according to R. M. Owens and W. Hammann 1990
See also Adrain et al. 1995, Jell and Adrain 2002, Owens 1974, Owens 1978, Sepkoski 2002 and Thomas and Owens 1978
Sister taxon: Panarchaeogonus
Subtaxa: Scharyia angusta Scharyia brevispinosa Scharyia couviniana Scharyia heothina Scharyia micropyga Scharyia nympha Scharyia siceripotrix Scharyia sola Scharyia tafilaltensis Scharyia vesca Scharyia yolkini
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (1 collection), the Czech Republic (15), Germany (2), Morocco (2), Poland (1), Uzbekistan (5)
• Silurian of Algeria (1), Australia (3), Canada (2: Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic (21), France (1), Greenland (1), Morocco (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: Alaska, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 65 collections including 66 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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