Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Synonym: Cystispininae Hahn and Hahn 1982
Parent taxon: Phillipsiidae according to D. K. Brezinski 2025
See also Müller 2008, Müller and Hahn 2018, Müller and Hahn 2023, Owens 2003 and Vanderlaan and Ebach 2015
Sister taxa: Bollandiinae, Cummingellinae, Cyrtosymbolinae, Ditomopyginae, Griffithidinae, Linguaphillipsiinae, Malchi, Osmolskia, Phillipsiinae, Rhenogriffides, Thaiaspidinae, Weaniinae
Subtaxa: Adelobole Appendicysta Archegonus Brevibole Crassibole Cyrtoproetus Cystispina Cystispinini Globusia Globusoidea Hildaphillipsia Latiglobusia Lichanocoryphe Liebsteinella Liobole Microspatulina Paraglobusia Pedinocoryphe Philliboloides Proliobole Pseudodudu Pseudospatulina Sdzuyaspis Semiproetus Skironitella Spinibole Spinibolops Steedenia Vandergrachtia Wagnerispina Waribole Xenadoche Xenoboloides Xylomelon
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Indonesia (1 collection)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), Austria (10), Belgium (4), China (12), Czechia (9), France (1), Germany (35), Ireland (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), Poland (7), Spain (5), the United Kingdom (13), United States (10: Illinois, Kentucky, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas)
• Devonian of China (4), France (1), Germany (12), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 133 collections including 297 occurrences