Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Full reference: J. E. Portlock. 1843. Report on the Geology of the County of Londonderry and of parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh 1-784
Parent taxon: Phillipsiidae according to Brezinski 2017
See also Campbell and Engel 1963, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ameropiltonia, Archegoninae, Bollandiinae, Breviphillipsia, Cummingellinae, Cyrtosymbolinae, Cystispininae, Ditomopyginae, Exochops, Griffithidella, Griffithidinae, Hesslerides, Kollarcephalus, Linguaphillipsia, Linguaphillipsiinae, Lugalella, Malchi, Nunnaspis, Osmolskia, Paladin, Piltonia, Rhenogriffides, Spergenaspis, Thaiaspidinae, Thigriffides, Weaniinae, Weberides
Subtaxa: Phillipsia aequalis Phillipsia aliensis Phillipsia belgica Phillipsia bittneri Phillipsia coronata Phillipsia derbyensis Phillipsia dubia Phillipsia eichwaldi Phillipsia gemmulifera Phillipsia kellyi Phillipsia kojensis Phillipsia mucronata Phillipsia najensis Phillipsia ornata Phillipsia peroccidens Phillipsia proetoides
Type: Phillipsia kellyi
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Indonesia (1 collection), Laos (1), Ukraine (2), United States (2: Alaska, Nevada)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Laos (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), Belgium (9), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (1: Yukon), India (2), Ireland (3), the United Kingdom (11), United States (12: Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia)
Total: 48 collections including 57 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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