Artiopoda - Harpetida - Harpetidae
Synonyms: Arraphidae Angelin 1854, Harpidae Hawle and Corda 1847
Parent taxon: Harpetida according to J. D. Beech and J. C. Lamsdell 2021
See also Adrain 2011, Ebach and McNamara 2002, McNamara et al. 2009, Romano and Henry 1982 and Sepkoski 1998
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Bohemoharpes Brachyhipposiderus Declivoharpes Dolichoharpes Dubhglasina Eoharpes Eotrinucleus Eskoharpes Fissocephalus Fritchaspis Harpes Helioharpes Hibbertia Kathrynia Kielania Lioharpes Maghroharpes Palaeoharpes Pinnuloharpes Scotoharpes Stoloharpes
Type: Harpes
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (1 collection), Australia (7), Belgium (3), Brazil (1), Canada (7: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Czechia (39), France (3), Germany (16), Italy (3), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (13), the Russian Federation (7), Thailand (1), Uzbekistan (2)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (3: Northwest Territories, Quebec, Yukon Territory), China (2), Czechia (27), Greenland (6), the United Kingdom (11), United States (4: Alaska, Wisconsin)
• Dobrotivian of Czechia (1), France (1), Portugal (2)
• Chazyan of Canada (16: Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Quebec), United States (18: New York)
• Whiterockian of Canada (12: Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec), Norway (1), United States (19: Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Vermont)
• Billingen of Sweden (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), China (1), Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (4), Australia (3), Canada (21: Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (13), Czechia (6), Estonia (2), France (1), Iran (1), Ireland (2), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (1), Norway (10), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (17), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (17), United States (18: Illinois, Iowa/Wisconsin, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Skullrockian of Argentina (1)
• Cambrian of Canada (1: Alberta), China (4)
Total: 364 collections including 404 occurrences