Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae
Synonyms: Aceroproetus Kolobova 1988, Pachyproetus Lutke 1990
Parent taxon: Crassiproetinae according to C. P. Stocker et al. 2019
See also Adrain 1997, Jell and Adrain 2002, Lemke 2020, Sepkoski 2002, Storey 2012 and Zhou et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Astroproetus, Boliviproetus, Crassiproetus, Dechenellurus, Elimaproetus, Mannopyge, Monodechenella, Raerinproetus, Thebanaspis, Winiskia
Subtaxa: Hedstroemia acer Hedstroemia channahonensis Hedstroemia delicatus Hedstroemia formosa Hedstroemia kutchini Hedstroemia pachydermatus Hedstroemia planedorsata Hedstroemia sourdoughi Hedstroemia sugiharensis
Type: Proetus delicatus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of China (5 collections)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Yukon), Greenland (1), Japan (2), Sweden (2), United States (1: Iowa), Uzbekistan (1)
• Ordovician of China (1)
Total: 15 collections including 17 occurrences
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