Platycoryphe Foerste 1919 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae

Synonym: Liangshanaspis Zhang 1974

Parent taxon: Homalonotinae according to A. W. Owen 1981

See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Thomas 1977

Sister taxa: Brongniartella, Burmeisteria, Digonus, Dipleura, Homalonotus, Parahomalonotus, Trimerus, Wenndorfia

Subtaxa: Platycoryphe bohemica Platycoryphe christyi Platycoryphe dangeardi Platycoryphe dyaulax Platycoryphe heberti Platycoryphe platycephala Platycoryphe vieillardi Platycoryphe vulcani

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Type: Calymene platycephala

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Silurian of China (1 collection), Saudi Arabia (3)

• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)

• Arenig of France (2)

• Klabava of France (1)

• Ordovician of Canada (1: Quebec), China (10), France (3), Kazakhstan (3), Norway (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Ohio)

• Tremadoc of China (1)

Total: 32 collections including 34 occurrences

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