Pterygometopus Schmidt 1881

Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae

Alternative spelling: Dalmanites (Pterygometopus)

Parent taxon: Pterygometopinae according to V. Jaanusson and L. Ramsköld 1993

See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Schuchert 1900, Sepkoski 2002 and Warburg 1925

Sister taxa: Achatella, Estoniops, Ingriops, Isalaux, Keilapyge, Oelandiops, Upplandiops, Yanhaoia

Subtaxa: Pterygometopus (Pterygometopus) Pterygometopus bredensis Pterygometopus recurvus Pterygometopus schmidti Pterygometopus sclerops Pterygometopus transsectus

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Type: Calymene sclerops

Distribution:

• Dobrotivian of Portugal (1 collection)

• Chazyan of Canada (1: Quebec)

• Fennian of France (1)

• Volkhov of the Russian Federation (16)

• Valaste of Sweden (2)

• Arenig of France (1), Morocco (1)

• Ordovician of Canada (2: Nunavut, Ontario), Norway (1), Spain (5), Sweden (17), United States (20: Minnesota, Tennessee, Virginia)

Total: 68 collections each including a single occurrence

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