Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Parent taxon: Cheiruridae according to E. Warburg 1925
See also Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthoparyphinae, Actinopeltis, Anasobella, Ancyginaspis, Arcticeraurinella, Areia, Areiaspis, Borealaspis, Bornholmaspis, Ceraurinium, Cerauromeros, Cerauropeltis, Ceraurus, Chacomurus, Cheirurinae, Cheirurus, Chiozoon, Contracheirurus, Crotalocephalides, Cyrtometopinae, Cyrtometopus, Deiphoninae, Didrepanon, Eccoptochilinae, Forteyops, Foulonia, Gabriceraurus, Hammannopyge, Hapsiceraurus, Heliomera, Heliomeroides, Hemisphaerocoryphe, Holia, Holotrachelus, Hyrokybe, Junggarella, Kawina, Kolymella, Krattaspis, Ktenoura, Laneites, Lehua, Onycopyge, Osekaspis, Parayoungia, Parisoceraurus, Pateraspis, Patomaspis, Pilekiinae, Placoparina, Pompeckia, Proromma, Protocerauroides, Pseudocheirurus, Radiurus, Ratinkaspis, Reraspis, Sphaerexochinae, Sphaexerochinae, Stubblefieldia, Sycophantia, Turantyx, Valongia, Whittakerites, Xylabion, Xystocrania, Youngia, Zazvorkaspis, Kinderlania
Subtaxa: Deiphon angelini Deiphon barrandei
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Whitwellian of Canada (4: Northwest Territories collections)
• Silurian of Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), the Czech Republic (5), Greenland (1), Sweden (8), the United Kingdom (9), United States (12: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, New York, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Sweden (1)
Total: 50 collections including 53 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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