Artiopoda - Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Parent taxon: Brachymetopidae according to E. Mychko 2025
See also Owens and Hammann 1990
Sister taxa: Australosutura, Cheiropyge, Cordania, Hahnus, Latecephalus, Mystrocephala, Narinia
Subtaxa: Asiagena Brachymetopus Namuropyge Oenonella Proetides Radnoria Tschernyschewiella Tschernyshewiella
Type: Brachymetopus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Indonesia (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2), Thailand (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Australia (8), Belgium (8), China (2), France (3), Germany (5), Ireland (2), Slovenia (3), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (15), United States (17: Alaska, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee)
• Devonian of China (1), Germany (6), Italy (1), United States (3: Missouri, Pennsylvania)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Czechia (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Arkansas, New York)
• Whiterockian of Norway (1)
• Ordovician of Portugal (2), Spain (4)
Total: 97 collections including 118 occurrences