Trilobita - Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Full reference: A. R. Palmer and R. B. Halley. 1979. Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1047:1-131
Parent taxon: Zacanthoididae according to A. R. Palmer and R. B. Halley 1979
See also Eddy and McCollum 1998, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Albertella, Albertellina, Albertelloides, Chuchiaspis, Danjiangella, Delamarella, Fieldaspis, Mexicaspis, Micmaccopsis, Panxinella, Parkaspis, Prozacanthoides, Pseudozacanthopsis, Ptarmiganoides, Qingzhenaspis, Stephenaspis, Ursinella, Vanuxemella, Zacanthoides, Zacanthopsina, Zacanthopsis
Subtaxa: Paralbertella bosworthi
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Canada (3: Alberta, British Columbia collections), United States (6: California, Nevada, Nevada and California)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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