Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Synonym: Pliomeraspis Harrington 1957 [objective synonym]
Parent taxon: Pliomeridae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anapliomera, Benedettia, Colobinion, Cybelopsinae, Encrinurella, Evropeites, Gogoella, Guizhoupliomerops, Hammatocneminae, Hintzeia, Ibexaspis, Josephulus, Leiostrototropis, Lemureops, Liexiaspis, Obliteraspis, Parapliomera, Perissopliomera, Placoparia, Pliomera, Pliomerella, Pliomeridius, Pliomerinae, Protoencrinurella, Protopliomerella, Protopliomerops, Pseudomera, Rossaspis
Subtaxa: Pliomeraspis martelli Pliomerina rigida Pliomerina serrata Pliomerina trisulcata
Type: Pliomera martelli
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Argentina (4 collections), Australia (26), China (8), Kazakhstan (4)
Total: 42 collections including 43 occurrences
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