Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Parent taxon: Phillipsiidae according to P. Müller and G. Hahn 2018
See also Owens 2003 and Vanderlaan and Ebach 2015
Sister taxa: Ameropiltonia, Bollandiinae, Breviphillipsia, Cummingellinae, Cyrtosymbolinae, Cystispininae, Ditomopyginae, Exochops, Griffithidella, Griffithidinae, Hesslerides, Kollarcephalus, Linguaphillipsia, Linguaphillipsiinae, Lugalella, Malchi, Nunnaspis, Osmolskia, Paladin, Phillipsia, Piltonia, Rhenogriffides, Spergenaspis, Thaiaspidinae, Thigriffides, Weaniinae, Weberides
Subtaxa: Adelobole Appendicysta Archegonus Brevibole Cyrtoproetus Diacoryphe Erdbachaspis Hildaphillipsia Lichanocoryphe Liobole Microspatulina Philliboloides Proliobole Pseudospatulina Skironitella Vandergrachtia Wagnerispina Xenoboloides
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Indonesia (1 collection)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), Austria (9), Belgium (4), China (5), the Czech Republic (9), Germany (41), Italy (4), Poland (5), Spain (5), the United Kingdom (10), United States (10: Illinois, Kentucky, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas)
• Devonian of Germany (1), Malaysia (1)
Total: 107 collections including 221 occurrences