Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae

Full reference: W. T. Zhang, Y. H. Lu, Z. L. Zhu, Y. Y. Qian, H. L. Lin, Z. Zhou, S. Zhang and J. L. Yuan. 1980. Cambrian trilobite faunas of southwestern China. Palaeontologia Sinica, new series B 16:1-497

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Atdabanella, Basocephalus, Bonnaria, Bonnia, Bonniella, Bonnima, Bonniopsis, Dorypygina, Dorypyginae, Fordaspis, Hicksia, Holteria, Holyoakia, Kooteniella, Kooteniellina, Liokootenia, Mengzia, Metakootenia, Ogygopsis, Olenoides, Olenoidestranans, Paraolenoides, Popigaia, Prokootenia, Protypus, Strettonia, Tabatopygellina, Tolanaspis

Subtaxa: Shipaiella pyriformis

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Type: Shipaiella pyriformis

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Yichang (Cambrian of China)

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