Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Synonym: Carbonocoryphinae Yuan and Xiang 1998
Parent taxon: Phillipsiidae according to D. K. Brezinski 2025
See also Basse and Lemke 2020, Hahn et al. 2003, Owens 2003 and Yuan and Xiang 1998
Sister taxa: Archegoninae, Bollandiinae, Cummingellinae, Cyrtosymbolinae, Ditomopyginae, Griffithidinae, Linguaphillipsiinae, Lugalella, Malchi, Osmolskia, Phillipsiinae, Rhenogriffides, Thaiaspidinae
Subtaxa: Amphiroaspis Aprathia Belgibole Carbonocoryphe Dechenelloides Doublatia Endops Eowinterbergia Evagena Geigibole Gitarra Gracemerea Hassiabole Nipponaspis Phillibolina Pseudocyrtosymbole Pseudowaribole Schizophillipsia Spergenaspis Thalabaria Weania Winterbergia
Type: Weania
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (4 collections), Japan (3), Thailand (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (7), Austria (9), Belgium (3), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (24), Czechia (2), France (1), Germany (12), Italy (1), Japan (1), Poland (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (4: Indiana, Missouri, Texas)
• Devonian of Austria (2), China (11), Czechia (2), France (2), Germany (19), Iran (1), Malaysia (1), Poland (4), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 125 collections including 173 occurrences