Artiopoda - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Full reference: H. B. Whittington. 1965. Trilobites of the Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 132(4):275-441
Parent taxon: Raphiophorinae according to R. A. Fortey 1975
See also Fortey and Droser 1999 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ampyx, Ampyxella, Ampyxinella, Bulbaspis, Cnemidopyge, Damghanampyx, Edmundsonia, Globampyx, Mendolaspis, Miaopopsis, Raphiophorus, Rhombampyx
Subtaxa: Ampyxoides inermis Ampyxoides occipitalis Ampyxoides semicostatus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of Canada (10: Newfoundland and Labrador collections), Norway (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence
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