Trilobita - Proetida - Otarionidae
Parent taxon: Otarioninae according to A. P. Van Viersen et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Beggaspis, Chamaeleoaspis, Harpidella, Otarionella
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (25 collections), Austria (1), Belgium (6), Bolivia (2), Canada (15: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon), China (1), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (43), France (11), Germany (16), Italy (3), Morocco (27), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (8), United States (6: Alaska, Iowa, Nevada, Oklahoma), Uzbekistan (2), Vietnam (1)
• Whitwellian of Canada (5: Northwest Territories)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Australia (6), Canada (15: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon Territory), China (2), the Czech Republic (29), Estonia (1), Greenland (1), Latvia (2), Morocco (2), Poland (1), Tajikistan (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (11: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
• Arenig of France (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec)
• Ordovician of Belgium (2), Canada (8: Northwest Territories, Quebec), China (4), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (11), United States (15: Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Virginia)
Total: 300 collections including 345 occurrences