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
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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