Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Alternative combination: Pseudophillipsia imbricatus
Full reference: T. Kobayashi and T. Hamada. 1980. Three new species of Permian trilobites from west Japan. Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B 56:120-124
Belongs to Neogriffithides according to T. Kobayashi and T. Hamada 1984
See also Flick and Shiino 2021 and Kobayashi and Hamada 1980
Sister taxa: Neogriffithides almensis, Neogriffithides extremorientalis, Neogriffithides gemmellaroi, Neogriffithides ismailensis, Neogriffithides pecencis, Neogriffithides pulchellus, Neoproetus (Siciliproetus) sicula
Type specimen: Its type locality is Mount Ryozen, Shiga Prefecture, which is in a Roadian/Capitanian carbonate limestone in Japan
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Mount Ryozen, Shiga Prefecture
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