Trilobita - Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae

Full reference: R. Feist and E. N. K. Clarkson. 1989. Environmentaly controlled phyletic evolution, blindness and extinction in Late Devonian tropidocoryphine trilobites. Lethaia 22:359-373

Parent taxon: Tropidocoryphidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Ascetopeltis, Bojocoryphe, Centriproetus, Constantina, Dalarnepeltis, Dipharangus, Eremiproetinae, Galbertianus, Lodenicia, Miriproetus, Perakaspis, Platyantyx, Pribylia, Pteropariinae, Rabuloproetus, Ranunculoproetus, Richteraspis, Rokycanocoryphe, Stenoblepharum, Tropicoryphe, Tropidocoryphinae

Subtaxa: Erbenicoryphe parvula

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Type: Erbenicoryphe parvula

Ecology: fast-moving infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at VS-E 48. Southern slope of Pic de Bissous Peak (Devonian of France)

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