Parent taxon: Phacopina according to J. M. Adrain 2011
See also Randolfe and Gass 2024
Sister taxa: Acastoidea, Diaphanometopidae, Phacopoidea, Prosopiscidae
Subtaxa: Dalmanitidae
Type: Dalmanitidae
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (3 collections), Argentina (3), Australia (7), Bolivia (4), Brazil (6), Canada (8: New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec), China (2), Colombia (2), Czechia (16), France (1), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (15), South Africa (4), Spain (2), United States (38: Alaska, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Australia (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Algeria (1), Argentina (8), Australia (8), Belarus (1), Bolivia (2), Canada (18: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (7), Czechia (2), Ireland (1), Latvia (3), Mexico (2), Paraguay (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (3), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (46), United States (121: Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Dobrotivian of Czechia (2), France (11), Morocco (4), Portugal (12), Spain (18)
• Liben of Czechia (1)
• Letna of Czechia (1)
• Klabava of Czechia (2)
• Arenig of China (1), France (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (4), Australia (1), Canada (8: Quebec, Québec), China (40), Czechia (34), Estonia (12), France (37), Iran (6), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (4), Latvia (23), Malaysia (2), Morocco (30), New Zealand (1), Norway (5), Oman (1), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (1), Spain (35), Sweden (8), Thailand (1), Türkiye (6), the United Kingdom (30), United States (7: Illinois, Maine, Virginia)
Total: 707 collections including 930 occurrences