Trilobita - Lichida - Damesellidae
Parent taxon: Dameselloidea according to G.-Y. Ren et al. 2017
See also Adrain 2011 and Whittington et al. 1997
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Adelogonus Bergeronites Blackwelderia Blackwelderioides Cyrtoprora Damesella Damesops Dipentaspis Dipyrgotes Dipyrogotes Guancenshania Hercantyx Histiomona Karslanus Kiyakius Liuheaspis Meringaspis Metashantungia Neodrepanura Palaeadotes Parablackwelderia Paradamesella Pingquania Protaitzehoia Shantungia Stephanocare Taihangshaniashania Taitzehoia Teinistion
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Ayusokkanian of Kazakhstan (17 collections), the Russian Federation (1)
• Cambrian of Australia (2), China (130), France (1), India (8), Iran (1), Kazakhstan (2), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (12), Turkey (1)
Total: 176 collections including 428 occurrences