Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Synonym: Cephalocoelia Raymond 1937 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Catillicephalidae according to H. J. Harrington et al. 1959
See also Armstrong et al. 2020, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acheilops, Buttsia, Calculites, Cryptoderaspis, Distazeris, Galeaspis, Lajishanaspis, Madarocephalus, Matania, Onchonotellus, Onchonotopsis, Onchonotus, Pemphigaspis, Peracheilus, Theodenisia, Theodensia, Triarthropsis, Tumidulaspis, Tuojiangella, Urbanaspis, Welleraspis, Yukonaspis
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Canada (2: Quebec collections), Greenland (10), United States (2: Vermont)
Total: 14 collections including 17 occurrences
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