Artiopoda - Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Synonym: Discomesites Öpik 1975
Parent taxon: Eodiscidae according to H. B. Whittington et al. 1997
See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Landing et al. 2002, Palmer and Gatehouse 1972 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Dawsonia, Eodiscus, Helepagetia, Kiskinella, Macannaia, Opsidiscus, Pagetia, Sinopagetia
Subtaxa: Pagetides antarcticus Pagetides elegans Pagetides fragum Pagetides spinulus
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Antarctica (2 collections), Australia (1), Canada (13: Northwest Territories, Quebec, Yukon), China (4), Greenland (7), United States (3: Alaska, Vermont)
• Caerfai of United States (1: New York)
Total: 31 collections including 35 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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