Trilobita - Proetida - Telephinidae
Synonym: Telephus Barrande 1852
Parent taxon: Telephinidae according to A. W. Owen and D. L. Bruton 1980
See also Fortey 1975, Jell and Adrain 2002, Nikolaisen 1963, Sepkoski 2002 and Warburg 1925
Sister taxa: Carolinites, Carrickiinae, Goniophrys, Oopsites, Opipeuter, Opipeuteridae, Phorocephala, Pyraustocranium
Subtaxa: Telephina (Telephina) Telephina americanus Telephina angulata Telephina fractus Telephina matchensis Telephina salteri Telephus troedssoni Telephus wegelini
Ecology: nektonic microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Uhaku of Norway (14 collections), Sweden (2)
• Chazyan of Canada (4: Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Whiterockian of Canada (8: Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), China (37), Ireland (3), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1), Norway (13), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (9), the United Kingdom (6), United States (3: Maine, Nevada, Virginia)
Total: 108 collections including 136 occurrences
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