Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Parent taxon: Asaphoidea according to R. A. Fortey and D. L. Bruton 2013
See also Adrain 2011, Harrington and Leanza 1957, Owens and Fortey 2009, Robison and Pantoja-Alor 1968 and Whittington et al. 1997
Sister taxa: Asaphidae, Ceratopygidae
Subtaxa: Aktugaiella Apatokephalina Apatokephaloides Apatokephalops Apatokephalus Artokephalus Blosyropsis Brachypleura Deanokephalus Diplapatokephalus Dislobosaspis Eoapatokephalus Eorobergia Haniwa Hastiremopleurides Hexacopyge Hukasawaia Hypodicranotus Ivshinaspis Jiia Kainella Kainellidae Lacorsalina Lingukainella Lohanpopsis Loshanella Mendosina Menoparia Naustia Oculeus Portentosus Praepatokephalus Proapatokephalops Pseudokainella Pugilator Remopleuridiella Remopleuridinae Richardsonella Richardsonellidae Robergiella Scinocephalus Sigmakainella Sunocavia Tramoria Yosimuraspis
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (111), Australia (14), Bolivia (6), Canada (75: Alberta, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon), China (92), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (1), France (3), Iran (1), Ireland (9), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (7), Norway (162), the Russian Federation (41), Sweden (71), the United Kingdom (39), United States (121: California, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa/Wisconsin, Maine, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia)
• Chazy of United States (3: New York)
• Llandeilo of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (6), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Tennessee)
• Whiterockian of Canada (19: Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec), Norway (2), United States (25: Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Vermont)
• Arenigian of China (12)
• Arenig of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador), China (6), Morocco (1), Norway (1), Spain (1), Sweden (4), United States (2: New York, North Dakota)
• Cambrian to Ordovician of Australia (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Cambrian of Argentina (1), Australia (13), Canada (22: Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Yukon), China (18), Kazakhstan (33), the Russian Federation (5), South Korea (5), United States (5: Alaska, Nevada, Texas, Vermont)
Total: 961 collections including 1238 occurrences