Artiopoda - Phacopida - Phacopidae
Full reference: I. Chlupac. 1972. New Silurian and Lower Devonian phacopid trilobites from the Barrandian area (Czechoslovakia). Casopis pro mineralogii a geologii 17:395-401
Parent taxon: Phacops according to I. Chlupac 1972
See also Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Phacops (Chasmops), Phacops (Chotecops), Phacops (Dalmania), Phacops (Nephranops), Phacops (Omegops), Phacops (Phacops), Phacops (Portlockia), Phacops (Prokops), Phacops (Pterygometopus), Phacops alifrons, Phacops araw, Phacops breviceps, Phacops circumspectans, Phacops fragosus, Phacops granulatus, Phacops guranensis, Phacops iowensis, Phacops latifrons, Phacops maurusius, Phacops maximus, Phacops natlensis, Phacops ouarouroutensis, Phacops pantichionensis, Phacops papulatus, Phacops postaltaicus, Phacops pronini, Phacops spedeni, Phacops tafilaltensis, Phacops tamtertensis, Phacops transversalis, Phacops turco, Phacops zeregensis
Subtaxa: Phacops (Boeckops) algericus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Middle Pragian Marl (Unit 5a) at Ben Zireg, Bechar Basin, SW Algeria (Devonian of Algeria)