Trilobita - Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Alternative spelling: Dolichometopus (Housia)
Full reference: C.D. Walcott. 1916. Cambrian geology and paleontology III. No. 5. Cambrian trilobites. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 64:303-456
Parent taxon: Pterocephaliidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002
See also Resser 1936, Sepkoski 2002 and Walcott 1916
Sister taxa: Anechocephalus, Aphelaspidinae, Beigongia, Bromella, Cilia, Dikelocephalites, Flabellocephalus, Housiinae, Jubileia, Labiostrella, Lunacephalus, Luotuolingia, Maladioides, Metachangshania, Morosa, Paramaladioidella, Pauciella, Pedinaspis, Pedinocephalites, Pelicephalus, Plesiocilia, Proapatokephaloides, Prodikelocephalites, Protemnites, Pseudaphelaspis, Pterocephaliinae, Pulchricapitus, Stenambon, Tumicephalus, Uxunella, Yangweizhouia, Yingziaspis, Camaraspis
Subtaxa: Housia ovata Housia vacuna Housia varro
Type: Dolichometopus (Housia) varro
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Canada (4: Alberta, British Columbia collections), Kazakhstan (1), United States (48: Arkansas, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
Total: 53 collections including 54 occurrences
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