Artiopoda - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Alternative spelling: Miraspinae
Parent taxon: Odontopleuridae according to M. Mergl 2014
See also Bruton 1966, Bruton 1967, Owen 1981 and Owen and Bruton 1980
Sister taxa: Acanthalomina, Acidaspidinae, Apianurinae, Borkopleura, Ceratocephalinae, Ceratonurus, Dicranurus, Dudleyaspis, Gaotania, Globulaspis, Hispaniaspis, Isoprusia, Ivanopleura, Koneprusia, Koneprusiinae, Laethoprusia, Meadowtownella, Odontopleurinae, Orphanaspis, Periallaspis, Selenopeltis, Selenopeltoides, Stelckaspis, Taemasaspis, Uriarra
Subtaxa: Ceratocephala Miraspis Proceratocephala Whittingtonia
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (4 collections), Czechia (19), Germany (1), Italy (1), Morocco (5), the Russian Federation (3), United States (1: Nevada), Uzbekistan (1)
• Whitwellian of Canada (4: Northwest Territories)
• Silurian of Algeria (1), Australia (4), Canada (20: Northwest Territories), Czechia (22), Greenland (2), Italy (1), Sweden (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (12: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin)
• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (3: New York)
• Chazyan of Canada (8: Northwest Territories)
• Billingen of Norway (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (1), Czechia (3), Iran (2), Ireland (6), Norway (4), Spain (2), Sweden (7), the United Kingdom (10), United States (19: Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia)
Total: 184 collections including 209 occurrences