Trilobita - Proetida - Scharyiidae
Parent taxon: Scharyiidae according to J. C. Lamsdell and P. A. Selden 2015
See also Owens 1974, Owens 1978, Owens and Hammann 1990 and Thomas and Owens 1978
Sister taxa: Lasarchopyge, Niuchangella, Panarchaegonus
Subtaxa: Panarchaeogonus Scharyia
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 to Silurian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordovician of Estonia (1), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Norway (4), Spain (3), Sweden (10), the United Kingdom (7)
Total: 89 collections including 94 occurrences