Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Parent taxon: Phillipsiidae according to R. M. Owens 2003
Sister taxa: Ameropiltonia, Archegoninae, 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: Bollandia Carbonoproetus Kathwaia Neogriffithides Neoproetus Reediella
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Greece (1 collection), Indonesia (4), Iran (1), Italy (3), Japan (4), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Slovenia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Ukraine (3)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), Belgium (4), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), Germany (7), Ireland (1), Japan (1), Poland (2), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 51 collections including 73 occurrences