Trilobita - Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Synonyms: Brachymetopina Reed 1903 [objective synonym], Iriania Archbold 1981, Loeipyge Kobayashi and Hamada 1979
Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1847. XXI. On the fossil botany and zoology of the rocks associated with the coal of Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20(133):226-236
Parent taxon: Brachymetopinae according to T. A. Vanderlaan and M. C. Ebach 2015
See also Archbold 1981, Archbold 1997, Hahn et al. 1985, Jell and Adrain 2002, Owens 2003, Owens and Hammann 1990 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Asiagena, Namuropyge, Oenonella, Proetides, Radnoria, Tschernyschewiella, Tschernyshewiella
Subtaxa: Brachymetopus (Acutimetopus) Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) Brachymetopus (Conimetopus) Brachymetopus drevermanni Brachymetopus edwardsi Brachymetopus gaoanensis Brachymetopus germanicus Brachymetopus jayae Brachymetopus maccoyi Brachymetopus nodosus Brachymetopus pseudometopina Brachymetopus rhinorhachis Brachymetopus spiniferus Brachymetopus spinosus Brachymetopus strzeleckii Brachymetopus woodlandi Brachymetopus woodwardii
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), Indonesia (1), the Russian Federation (1), Thailand (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Australia (7), Belgium (8), China (2), France (2), Germany (5), Ireland (2), Slovenia (3), Spain (3), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (7: Alaska, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee)
• Devonian of China (1), Germany (6), United States (2: Missouri, Pennsylvania)
Total: 66 collections including 79 occurrences
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