Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Alternative combination: Phillipsia perannulata
Full reference: B. F. Shumard. 1858. Notice of new fossils from the Permian strata of New Mexico and Texas, collected by Dr. George G. Shumard, geologist of the United States Government expedition for obtaining water by means of artesian wells along the 32nd parallel, under the direction of Capt John Pope, US Corps Topographic Engineers. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 1:290-297
Belongs to Anisopyge according to F. Sour-Tovar et al. 2016
See also Brezinski 1992, Girty 1908, Shumard 1858 and Shumard 1859
Sister taxa: Anisopyge cooperi, Anisopyge hyperbola, Anisopyge inornata
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Mexico (1 collection), United States (29: New Mexico, Texas), Venezuela (1)
Total: 31 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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