Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Parent taxon: Phillipsiidae according to R. M. Owens 2003
Sister taxa: Ameropiltonia, Archegoninae, Bollandiinae, Breviphillipsia, Cyrtosymbolinae, Cystispininae, Ditomopyginae, Exochops, Griffithidella, Griffithidinae, Hesslerides, Kollarcephalus, Linguaphillipsia, Linguaphillipsiinae, Lugalella, Malchi, Nunnaspis, Osmolskia, Paladin, Phillipsia, Piltonia, Rhenogriffides, Spergenaspis, Thaiaspidinae, Thigriffides, Weaniinae, Weberides
Subtaxa: Australokaskia Bedicella Comptonaspis Cummingella Gapeevella Humilogriffithides Karginella Liobolina Mahaiella Moschoglossis Paraphillipsia Perexigupyge Persia Planokaskia Richterella Xiangzhongella Zhegangula
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (2 collections), Japan (2), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (2), Slovenia (2), Thailand (1), Ukraine (3), United States (2: Alaska, Oregon)
• Namurian of Ukraine (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (9), Austria (11), Belgium (17), Canada (2: Northwest Territories), China (6), the Czech Republic (2), France (3), Germany (16), Iran (1), Japan (1), Poland (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (8: Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico)
• Devonian of Germany (1)
Total: 107 collections including 134 occurrences