Trilobita - Olenida - Parabolinoididae
Synonyms: Bemaspis Frederickson 1949, Maustonia Berg 1953
Parent taxon: Parabolinoididae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Abdulinaspis, Apomodocia, Croixana, Kendallina, Minkella, Orygmaspis, Pedinocephalus, Pesaiella, Roksaspis, Stigmacephaloides
Subtaxa: Taenicephalus polyaricus Taenicephalus shumardi
Type: Conocephalites shumardi
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Canada (4: Alberta, Yukon collections), the Russian Federation (3), United States (40: Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
Total: 47 collections including 54 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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