Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Full reference: Y. Duan, J. L. Yang, and G. R. Shi. 1999. Middle and Upper Cambrian polymerid trilobites and biostratigraphy, Fenghuang area, western Hunan Province, China. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 111(2):141-172
Parent taxon: Catillicephalidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002
Sister taxa: Acheilops, Buttsia, Calculites, Catillicephala, Cryptoderaspis, Distazeris, Galeaspis, Lajishanaspis, Madarocephalus, Matania, Onchonotellus, Onchonotopsis, Onchonotus, Pemphigaspis, Peracheilus, Theodenisia, Theodensia, Triarthropsis, Tumidulaspis, Urbanaspis, Welleraspis, Yukonaspis
Subtaxa: Tuojiangella tuojiangensis
Type: Tuojiangella tuojiangensis
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Haichongkou, bed 22 (Cambrian of China)
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