Trilobita - Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Full reference: S. Peng. 1992. Upper Cambrian biostratigraphy and trilobite faunas of the Cili-Taoyuan area, northwestern Hunan, China. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 13:1-119
Parent taxon: Pterocephaliidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002
Sister taxa: Anechocephalus, Aphelaspidinae, Beigongia, Bromella, Dikelocephalites, Flabellocephalus, Housia, Housiinae, Jubileia, Labiostrella, Lunacephalus, Luotuolingia, Metachangshania, Morosa, Paramaladioidella, Pauciella, Pedinaspis, Pedinocephalites, Pelicephalus, Plesiocilia, Proapatokephaloides, Prodikelocephalites, Protemnites, Pseudaphelaspis, Pterocephaliinae, Pulchricapitus, Stenambon, Tumicephalus, Uxunella, Yangweizhouia, Yingziaspis, Camaraspis
Subtaxa: Cilia plectrifera
Type: Cilia plectrifera
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Shenjiawan, unit 24, 53 (Cambrian of China)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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