Trilobita - Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Synonym: Embolimus Rominger 1887 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Zacanthoididae according to F. A. Sundberg 1994
See also Eddy and McCollum 1998, Jell and Adrain 2002, Mason 1935, Palmer 1954, Palmer and Halley 1979, Sepkoski 2002 and Walcott 1908
Sister taxa: Albertella, Albertellina, Albertelloides, Chuchiaspis, Danjiangella, Delamarella, Fieldaspis, Mexicaspis, Micmaccopsis, Panxinella, Paralbertella, Parkaspis, Prozacanthoides, Pseudozacanthopsis, Ptarmiganoides, Qingzhenaspis, Stephenaspis, Ursinella, Vanuxemella, Zacanthopsina, Zacanthopsis
Subtaxa: Zacanthoides abbreviatus Zacanthoides adjunctus Zacanthoides demissus Zacanthoides divergens Zacanthoides eatoni Zacanthoides fronslicinus Zacanthoides gilberti Zacanthoides gradatus Zacanthoides holopygous Zacanthoides holopygus Zacanthoides idahoensis Zacanthoides kelsayae Zacanthoides liddelli Zacanthoides marshalli Zacanthoides sampsoni Zacanthoides serratus Zacanthoides spinosus Zacanthoides typicalis Zacanthoides variacantha Zacanthoides walapai
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Argentina (4 collections), Canada (6: Alberta-British Columbia, Brithish Columbia, British Columbia, Northwest Territories), Greenland (1), Mexico (1), United States (40: Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada, Nevada and California, New York, Utah, Vermont)
• Templetonian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Solvan of Canada (22: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (3: Nevada)
• Amgan of United States (1: Utah)
Total: 79 collections including 87 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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