After Luksevics, 2001
<==o †Bothriolepis Eichwald, 1840 [Bothryolepis, Glyptosteus, Homothorax, Macrobrachius, Parmphractus, Phoebammon, Placothorax, Shurcabroma, Stanacanthus] [over 76 described species!] |?- †B. africana Long, Anderson, Gess & Hiller, 1997 |?- †B. yeungae Johanson, 1998 |?- †B. heckeri Luksevics, 2001 |-- †B. askinae Young, 1988 `--+--+-- †B. prima Gross, 1942 | `-- †B. obrutschewi Gross, 1942 `--+--+-- †B. canadensis (Whiteaves) | |?- †B. darbiensis Denison, 1951 [jr. synon. of B. nitida sensu Thomas & Thomas, 2001] | |-- †B. cellulosa (Pander, 1846, in Keyserling, 1846) | `-- †B. panderi Lahusen, 1880 `--+--+-- †B. cullodenensis | `-- †B. gibbslandensis |--+-- †B. barretti Young, 1988 | |-- †B. hydrophyla (Agazzis) | `-- †B. alvesiensis Stensiö, 1948 |--+-- †B. fergusoni | |-- †B. volongensis Lyarskaja & Luksevics, 1999 | `-- †B. traudscholdi Jaekel, 1927 `--+-- †B. evaldi Lyarskaja, 1986 |--+-- †B. obesa | |-- †B. paradoxa | `--+-- †B. mawsoni | `-- †B. vuwae |--+-- †B. niushoushanensis | |--+-- †B. portalensis Young, 1988 | | `-- †B. kohni | `--+-- †B. macphersoni | `--+-- †B. karawaka | `-- †B. longi `--+--+-- †B. hayi | |-- †B. hicklingi | `-- †B. taylori |--+-- †B. nitida (Leidy, 1856) Eastman, 1907 [Stenacanthus nitidus Leidy, 1856] [incl. Holonema rugosa Cope, 1879; B. minor Newberry, 1889; B. darbiensis Denison, 1951] | |?- †B. virginiensis Weems, Beem & Miller, 1981 [jr. synon. of B. nitida sensu Thomas & Thomas, 2001] | `-- †B. coloradensis Eastman, 1904 [jr. synon. of B. nitida sensu Thomas & Thomas, 2001] |--+-- †B. wilsoni | `-- †B. zadonica |--+-- †B. maxima Gross, 1933 | `-- †B. gigantica |--+-- †B. grenfellensis Johanson, 1997 | `-- †B. tatongensis Long & Werdelin, 1986 |--+-- †B. jarviki Stensiö, 1948 | `-- †B. leptocheira-curonica Gross, 1942 `--+--+-- †B. ornata Eichwald, 1840 | `-- †B. groenlandica Heintz, 1930 `--+-- †B. jani Luksevics, 1986 `--+-- †B. nielseni Stensiö, 1948 `-- †B. ciecere Lyarskaja, 1974, in Lyarskaja & Savvaitova, 1974
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