Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Parent taxon: Phillipsiidae according to D. K. Brezinski 2017
See also Hahn et al. 1996, 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, Phillipsia, Rhenogriffides, Spergenaspis, Thaiaspidinae, Thigriffides, Weaniinae, Weberides
Subtaxa: Piltonia (Piltonia) Piltonia balor Piltonia carlakertisae Piltonia eurybathrea Piltonia fryi Piltonia kuehnei
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Belgium (5 collections), the Czech Republic (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (3: New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee)
Total: 14 collections including 15 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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