Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae
Parent taxon: Cornuproetinae according to V. Bault et al. 2021
See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Stocker et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Buchiproetus, Cornuproetus, Cyrtosymboloides, Dalejeproetus, Diademaproetus, Eopiriproetus, Hollandiella, Ignoproetus, Koneprusites, Lepidoproetus, Linguaproetus, Montanproetus, Ogmocnemis, Paralepidoproetus, Parapalpebralia, Paraproetus, Parvigena, Piriproetus, Proetopeltis, Quadratoproetus, Sculptoproetus, Timsaloproetus, Vicinoproetus, Voigtaspis, Wolayella
Subtaxa: Interproetus intermedius Interproetus mizobuchii Interproetus parviusculus Interproetus pentaxus Interproetus soncobrinus Interproetus venustus Interproetus walliseri
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Algeria (1 collection), Canada (4: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), the Czech Republic (17), Japan (1), Morocco (3), Uzbekistan (2)
• Ordovician of United States (2: Pennsylvania, Tennessee)
Total: 30 collections including 37 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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