Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae
PJW: This had Poulson 1937 entered as the author. Either that is a homonym or a mistake; Sepkoski clearly recorded the Chinese Devonian genus, not a possible Greenland Ordovician one.
Parent taxon: Proetidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Aayemenaytcheia, Astycoryphinae, Chuanoproetus, Cornuproetinae, Crassiproetinae, Dechenellinae, Drevermanniinae, Eodrevermanniinae, Hypaproetus, Lauchellum, Merebolina, Mirabolinae, Oidalaproetus, Ormistonia, Panibole, Paryfenus, Perliproetinae, Phaseolops, Phyllaspis, Plesiowensus, Prodiacoryphe, Proetidellinae, Proetinae, Schaderthalaspis, Silesiops, Sinobole, Triproetus, Warburgellinae, Xenocybe, Yanshanaspis, Yichangaspis
Subtaxa: Ceratoproetus guangnanensis
Type: Ceratoproetus guangnanensis
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ceratoproetus in the database
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