Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Full reference: C.D. Walcott. 1916. Cambrian geology and paleontology. III, número 5. Cambrian trilobites. . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 64:303-456
Parent taxon: Dorypygidae according to A. R. Palmer and R. B. Halley 1979
Sister taxa: Atdabanella, Basocephalus, Bonnaria, Bonniella, Bonnima, Bonniopsis, Dorypygina, Dorypyginae, Fordaspis, Hicksia, Holteria, Holyoakia, Kooteniella, Kooteniellina, Liokootenia, Mengzia, Metakootenia, Ogygopsis, Olenoides, Olenoidestranans, Paraolenoides, Popigaia, Prokootenia, Protypus, Shipaiella, Strettonia, Tabatopygellina, Tolanaspis
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Canada (35: British Columbia, Labrador, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory collections), Greenland (6), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (13), United States (21: California, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia)
Total: 76 collections including 88 occurrences
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