Artiopoda - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Parent taxon: Dorypygidae according to E. Landing et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Atdabanella, Basocephalus, Bonnaria, Bonnia, Bonniella, Bonnima, Bonniopsis, Dorypygina, Fordaspis, Hicksia, Holteria, Holyoakia, Kooteniella, Kooteniellina, Liokootenia, Mengzia, Metakootenia, Ogygopsis, Olenoides, Olenoidestranans, Paraolenoides, Popigaia, Prokootenia, Protypus, Shipaiella, Strettonia, Tabatopygellina, Tolanaspis
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Antarctica (6 collections), Argentina (6), Australia (3), Canada (25: Alberta-British Columbia, British Columbia, Northwest Territories), China (78), Greenland (8), Iran (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (6), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mexico (2), Mongolia (1), North Korea (1), the Russian Federation (17), South Korea (1), Türkiye (5), the United Kingdom (2), United States (66: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Nevada and California, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Templetonian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Amgan of Kyrgyzstan (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Alaska)
• Solvan of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (7: Newfoundland and Labrador), Kazakhstan (2), United States (4: Nevada)
Total: 251 collections including 293 occurrences