Artiopoda - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Parent taxon: Dalmanitoidea according to J. M. Adrain 2011
See also Budil et al. 2009, Dean 1983, Randolfe and Gass 2024 and Whittington et al. 1997
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acastinae Anchiopsis Andreaspis Argentopyge Bessazoon Blanodalmanites Chattiaspis Coronura Corycephalus Crozonaspis Dalmanites Dalmanitina Dalmanitinae Dalmanitininae Dalmaniturus Daytonia Delops Dreyfussina Duftonia Fenestraspis Forillonaria Francovichia Furacopyge Gamonedaspis Glyptambon Huntoniatonia Kasachstania Kazachstania Lygdozoon Malladaia Morgatia Mucronaspis Neoprobolium Odontocephalus Ormathops Phalangocephalus Preodontochile Prodontochile Roncellia Schoharia Synphoria Synphoriinae Synphoroides Toletanaspis Trypaulites Zeliszkellinae
Type: Dalmanitinae
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (3 collections), Australia (7), Bolivia (4), Brazil (6), Canada (8: New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec), China (2), Colombia (2), Czechia (16), France (1), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (15), South Africa (4), Spain (2), United States (38: Alaska, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Australia (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Algeria (1), Argentina (8), Australia (8), Belarus (1), Bolivia (2), Canada (18: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (7), Czechia (2), Ireland (1), Latvia (3), Mexico (2), Paraguay (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (3), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (46), United States (121: Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Dobrotivian of Czechia (2), France (11), Morocco (4), Portugal (12), Spain (18)
• Liben of Czechia (1)
• Letna of Czechia (1)
• Klabava of Czechia (2)
• Arenig of China (1), France (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (4), Australia (1), Canada (8: Québec), China (40), Czechia (34), Estonia (12), France (37), Iran (6), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (4), Latvia (23), Malaysia (2), Morocco (30), New Zealand (1), Norway (5), Oman (1), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (1), Spain (35), Sweden (8), Thailand (1), Türkiye (6), the United Kingdom (30), United States (7: Illinois, Maine, Virginia)
Total: 704 collections including 927 occurrences