Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Parent taxon: Homalonotidae according to C. R. Congreve and B. S. Lieberman 2008
Sister taxa: Arduennella, Burmeisterella, Colpocoryphinae, Eohomalonotinae, Iberocoryphe, Kerfornella, Kerfornellinae, Leiostegina, Scabrella
Subtaxa: Brongniartella Burmeisteria Digonus Dipleura Homalonotus Parahomalonotus Platycoryphe Trimerus Wenndorfia
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (8 collections), Antarctica (4), Australia (13), Belgium (1), Bolivia (8), Brazil (12), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (9), Germany (2), Ghana (1), Libya (3), Luxembourg (3), Morocco (7), New Zealand (7), Poland (4), South Africa (14), Spain (10), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), United States (70: New York, Pennsylvania), Uruguay (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Australia (1), Morocco (2)
• Silurian of Algeria (1), Argentina (8), Australia (2), Bolivia (1), Canada (3: Nova Scotia, Ontario), China (1), Jordan (4), Morocco (1), Paraguay (2), Poland (3), Saudi Arabia (3), the United Kingdom (5), United States (50: Indiana, Maryland, New York, Tennessee, West Virginia)
• Dobrotivian of France (1)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Arenig of France (2)
• Klabava of France (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Bolivia (2), Canada (9: Quebec, Québec), China (10), the Czech Republic (2), Estonia (1), France (3), Kazakhstan (3), Latvia (1), Morocco (5), Norway (2), Poland (1), Spain (1), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (30), United States (4: Nevada, Ohio)
• Tremadoc of China (1)
Total: 357 collections including 405 occurrences