Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Full reference: T. R. Lin. 1982. Trilobite names. Palaeontological Atlas of East China 2:326-329
Belongs to Pseudophillipsia according to T. R. Lin 1982
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 kuzuensis, Pseudophillipsia lipara, 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: HIT-6007, a cephalon/head (Cephalon and partial thoracic segments). Its type locality is Mengshan, Shanggao County, which is in a Kungurian marine limestone in the Qixia Formation of China.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Mengshan, Shanggao County
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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