Odontopleura is a genus of spinose odontopleurid trilobite in the family Odontopleuridae, and is the type genus of that family and of Odontopleurida. The various species are found in Upper Ordovician to Middle Devonian marine strata throughout the world. The best studied fossils are of the type species, O. ovata, from the Wenlock-aged Liteň Formation in Loděnice, in Bohemia, Czech Republic, and, southeastern Gotland, of Sweden.Calner, Mikael, et al. "The first record of Odontopleura ovata (Trilobita) from Scandinavia: part of a middle Silurian intercontinental shelly benthos mass occurrence." GFF 128.1 (2006): 33-37.
Distribution Fossils of Odontopleura have been found in:Odontopleura at Fossilworks.org Devonian China, Floresta Formation, Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia Silurian Canada (Northwest Territories, Quebec), China, the Czech Republic, Poland, United States (Iowa, New York) Ordovician United States (Indiana, Ohio, Virginia)
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