Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Parent taxon: Phillipsiidae according to D. K. Brezinski 2025
See also Mychko 2025 and Owens 2003
Sister taxa: Archegoninae, Bollandiinae, Cyrtosymbolinae, Ditomopyginae, Griffithidinae, Linguaphillipsiinae, Lugalella, Malchi, Osmolskia, Phillipsiinae, Rhenogriffides, Thaiaspidinae, Weaniinae
Subtaxa: Australokaskia Baliothyreus Bedicella Comptonaspis Cummingella Gapeevella Humilogriffithides Karginella Kollarcephalus Liobolina Mahaiella Moschoglossis Paraphillipsia Parvidumus Persiax Planokaskia Richterella Timorcranium Xiangzhongella Zhegangula
Type: Cummingella
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (2 collections), Indonesia (1), Japan (2), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (7), Slovenia (2), Thailand (1), Ukraine (3), United States (2: Alaska, Oregon)
• Namurian of Ukraine (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (9), Austria (11), Belgium (18), China (6), Czechia (2), France (3), Germany (16), Iran (1), Japan (3), Poland (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (7: Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico)
• Devonian of Germany (1)
Total: 115 collections including 142 occurrences