†family Phacopidae Hawle and Corda 1847 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae

Parent taxon: Phacopoidea according to J. M. Adrain 2011

See also Sandford 2004, Sepkoski 1998 and Whittington et al. 1997

Sister taxon: Pterygometopidae

Subtaxa: Acernaspis Acuticryphops Adastocephalum Afrops Altaesajania Ananaspis Babinops Boeckops Burtonops Chotecops Denckmannites Dianops Dienstina Drotops Ductina Echinophacopinae Eldredgeops Enigmapyge Eocryphops Eophacops Illaenula Inexpectatops Kainops Liolophops Lochkovella Nyterops Paciphacops Phacopidella Phacopinae Phacops Plagiolaria Pulvinocephalus Rabienops Reedops Rhinophacops Rhinoreedops Sambremeusaspis Signatops Struveaspis Teichertops Trifoliops Trimerocephalus Zaplaops

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Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of France (1 collection)

• Daleje of the Czech Republic (1)

• Couvinien of Australia (1)

• Devonian of Algeria (5), Argentina (2), Australia (36), Austria (4), Belgium (9), Bolivia (4), Brazil (1), Canada (16: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec), Chile (1), China (25), Colombia (31), the Czech Republic (47), France (30), Germany (84), Iran (4), Italy (2), Japan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Libya (1), Mongolia (2), Morocco (88), New Zealand (1), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (17), Turkey (3), the United Kingdom (13), United States (316: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia), Venezuela (2), Vietnam (2), Western Sahara (4)

• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), China (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Argentina (8), Australia (6), Austria (1), Canada (89: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec), China (1), the Czech Republic (37), Estonia (4), Greenland (2), Italy (1), Japan (2), Latvia (2), Morocco (7), Norway (1), Paraguay (1), the Russian Federation (10), Sweden (2), Ukraine (8), the United Kingdom (37), United States (28: Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (6: British Columbia, Québec), the Russian Federation (1)

• Ordovician of Belgium (1), Canada (3: Quebec, Québec), France (2), Italy (1), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Georgia, Tennessee, Wisconsin)

Total: 1033 collections including 1285 occurrences

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