Artiopoda - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Parent taxon: Odontopleurida according to J. M. Adrain 2011
See also Feist 2002, Owens and Fortey 2009 and Whittington et al. 1997
Sister taxa: Clustinia, Cyrtopora
Subtaxa: Acanthalomina Acidaspidinae Apianurinae Borkopleura Ceratocephalinae Ceratonurus Dicranurus Dudleyaspis Gaotania Globulaspis Hispaniaspis Isoprusia Ivanopleura Koneprusia Koneprusiinae Laethoprusia Meadowtownella Miraspidinae Odontopleurinae Orphanaspis Periallaspis Selenopeltis Selenopeltoides Stelckaspis Taemasaspis Uriarra
Type: Odontopleurinae
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Givetian of France (1 collection)
• Devonian of Australia (37), Belgium (4), Bolivia (1), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (1), Colombia (2), Czechia (56), France (10), Germany (18), Italy (2), Morocco (45), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (7), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: Michigan, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania), Uzbekistan (1)
• Whitwellian of Canada (4: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (2)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Algeria (1), Argentina (7), Australia (9), Austria (1), Canada (109: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon Territory), China (9), Czechia (42), Estonia (3), Greenland (4), Ireland (2), Italy (1), Latvia (4), Mexico (2), Morocco (3), Norway (2), Poland (2), Spain (2), Sweden (13), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (38), United States (22: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, New York, Oklahoma, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (2)
• Uhaku of Norway (1)
• Dobrotivian of Czechia (3), France (5), Morocco (4), Portugal (4), Spain (8)
• Liben of Czechia (1)
• Letna of Czechia (1)
• Aluoja of Estonia (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (13: Northwest Territories)
• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), Norway (1), United States (7: New York, Vermont)
• Billingen of Norway (1)
• Arenigian of China (1)
• Arenig of the United Kingdom (3)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (4: Québec), Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (10), Belgium (1), Canada (19: Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (14), Czechia (23), Estonia (4), France (2), Iran (2), Ireland (7), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (5), Latvia (1), Morocco (7), New Zealand (1), Norway (33), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (10), Sweden (28), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (40), United States (87: California, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia)
• Cambrian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 856 collections including 1342 occurrences