Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Synonym: Carbonocoryphinae Yuan and Xiang 1998
Parent taxon: Phillipsiidae according to M. Basse and U. Lemke 2020
See also Hahn et al. 2003, Owens 2003 and Yuan and Xiang 1998
Sister taxa: Ameropiltonia, Archegoninae, Bollandiinae, Breviphillipsia, Cummingellinae, Cyrtosymbolinae, Cystispininae, Ditomopyginae, Exochops, Griffithidella, Griffithidinae, Hesslerides, Kollarcephalus, Linguaphillipsia, Linguaphillipsiinae, Lugalella, Malchi, Nunnaspis, Osmolskia, Paladin, Phillipsia, Piltonia, Rhenogriffides, Spergenaspis, Thaiaspidinae, Thigriffides, Weberides
Subtaxa: Amphiroaspis Belgibole Carbonocoryphe Doublatia Endops Eowinterbergia Evagena Geigibole Gracemerea Hassiabole Nipponaspis Pseudocyrtosymbole Pseudowaribole Thalabaria Weania Winterbergia
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (4 collections), Japan (3), Thailand (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (6), Austria (9), Belgium (4), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (24), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), Germany (11), Italy (2), Japan (1), Poland (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (2: Texas)
• Devonian of Austria (2), China (10), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (19), Iran (1), Malaysia (1), Poland (4), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 117 collections including 163 occurrences