Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Full reference: T. Kobayashi and T. Hamada. 1984. Permian trilobites of Japan in comparison with Asian, Pacific and other faunas. Paleontological Society of Japan Special papers 26:1-92
Belongs to Pseudophillipsia according to T. Kobayashi and T. Hamada 1984
Sister taxa: Pseudophillipsia (Nodiphillipsia), Pseudophillipsia (Pseudophillipsia), Pseudophillipsia acuminata, Pseudophillipsia anshunensis, Pseudophillipsia armenica, Pseudophillipsia azzouzi, Pseudophillipsia borissiaki, Pseudophillipsia caucasica, Pseudophillipsia chongqingensis, Pseudophillipsia elegans, Pseudophillipsia gemmellaroi, Pseudophillipsia heshanensis, Pseudophillipsia huishuiensis, Pseudophillipsia hungarica, Pseudophillipsia lipara, Pseudophillipsia mengshanensis, Pseudophillipsia mustafensis, Pseudophillipsia obtusicauda, Pseudophillipsia oehlerti, Pseudophillipsia parvizii, Pseudophillipsia pyriformis, Pseudophillipsia qinglongensis, Pseudophillipsia rakoveci, Pseudophillipsia reggorcakaensis, Pseudophillipsia semicircularis, Pseudophillipsia shanggaoensis, Pseudophillipsia solida, Pseudophillipsia sosiensis, Pseudophillipsia steatopyga, Pseudophillipsia subcircularis, Pseudophillipsia sumatrensis, Pseudophillipsia tongluensis, Pseudophillipsia triangulata, Pseudophillipsia wuweiensis
Type specimen: PAt 16707, a pygidium. Its type locality is Yamasuge, Kuzuu Town, Tochigi Prefecture, which is in a Roadian carbonate limestone in the Nabeyama Formation of Japan.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pseudophillipsia kuzuensis in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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