Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae

Full reference: Z. Zhou, W. T. Dean, W. Yuan and T. Zhou. 1998. Ordovician trilobites from the Dawangou Formation, Kalpin, Xinjiang, north-west China. Palaeontology 41(4):693-735

Parent taxon: Pterygometopinae according to Z. Zhou et al. 1998

See also Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Achatella, Estoniops, Ingriops, Isalaux, Keilapyge, Oelandiops, Pterygometopus, Upplandiops

Subtaxa: Yanhaoia huayinshanensis

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Type: Pterygometopus huayinshanensis

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Collection NJ295, Dawangou, northwestern Tarim Basin ( of China)

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