Artiopoda - Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
Synonym: Pseudotrinodidae Koashibay and Hamada 1972
Parent taxon: Aulacopleuroidea according to J. C. Lamsdell and P. A. Selden 2015
See also Adrain 2011, Adrain and Kloc 1997, Owens and Fortey 2009, Owens and Hammann 1990, Thomas and Owens 1978 and Whittington et al. 1997
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aulacopleura Aulacopleurinae Coignops Cyphaspides Dixiphopyge Malimanaspis Maurotarion Nitidocare Songkania
Type: Aulacopleura
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (2: New Mexico collections)
• Devonian of Australia (2), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (7), Czechia (21), Germany (3), Morocco (18), United States (4: New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania), Uzbekistan (2)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Austria (1), Canada (18: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec), China (5), Czechia (15), Greenland (1), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Indiana), Uzbekistan (1)
• Arenigian of China (1)
• Ordovician of China (3), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 115 collections including 136 occurrences