†family Dorypygidae Kobayashi 1935 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae

Alternative spelling: Dorypigidae

Synonym: Ogygopsididae Rasetti 1951

Parent taxon: Corynexochina according to J. M. Adrain 2011

See also Eddy and McCollum 1998, Landing et al. 2008, Palmer 1954, Palmer and Halley 1979, Pour and Popov 2009, Sundberg 1994 and Whittington et al. 1997

Sister taxa: Chengkouiidae, Corynexochidae, Dinesidae, Edelsteinaspididae, Jakutidae, Oryctocephalidae, Zacanthoididae

Subtaxa: 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 Shipaiella Strettonia Tabatopygellina Tolanaspis

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Marjumian of Canada (1: British Columbia collection), Greenland (5), United States (10: Arizona, New York, Utah)

• Cambrian of Antarctica (6), Argentina (3), Australia (6), Canada (79: Alberta-British Columbia, Brithish Columbia, British Columbia, Labrador, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon Territory), China (121), Greenland (16), Iran (2), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (18), Kyrgyzstan (3), Mexico (3), North Korea (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (37), South Korea (1), Spain (1), Turkey (5), the United Kingdom (2), United States (121: Alaska, Arizona, California, California-Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Nevada and California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming)

Total: 443 collections including 606 occurrences

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