Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Synonym: Bicaspis Resser 1938
Parent taxon: Dorypygidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Atdabanella, Basocephalus, Bonnaria, Bonnia, Bonniella, Bonnima, Bonniopsis, Dorypygina, Dorypyginae, Fordaspis, Hicksia, Holteria, Holyoakia, Kooteniella, Kooteniellina, Liokootenia, Mengzia, Metakootenia, Ogygopsis, Olenoides, Olenoidestranans, Paraolenoides, Popigaia, Prokootenia, Shipaiella, Strettonia, Tabatopygellina, Tolanaspis
Subtaxa: Protypus hitchcocki
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Delamaran of United States (1: Virginia collection)
• Cambrian of the Russian Federation (4), United States (3: New York, Vermont)
Total: 8 collections including 9 occurrences
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