Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Synonyms: Spinolimbella Liu 1982, Weberiphillipsia Osmolska 1970
Parent taxon: Linguaphillipsiinae according to G. Hahn et al. 2003
See also Engel and Morris 1989, Jell and Adrain 2002, Kobayashi and Hamada 1980, Sepkoski 2002 and Vanderlaan and Ebach 2015
Sister taxa: Bitumulina, Dechenelloides, Gitarra, Hunanoproetus, Schizophillipsia
Subtaxa: Palaeophillipsia altoculata Palaeophillipsia bella Palaeophillipsia japonica Palaeophillipsia kirgisica Palaeophillipsia osmolskae Palaeophillipsia robertsi Palaeophillipsia squamata Weberiphillipsia guizhouensis
Type: Palaeophillipsia japonica
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (8 collections), China (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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