Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Parent taxon: Phillipsiidae according to Brezinski 2007
See also Brezinski 1987, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ameropiltonia, Archegoninae, Bollandiinae, Breviphillipsia, Cummingellinae, Cyrtosymbolinae, Cystispininae, Ditomopyginae, Exochops, Griffithidella, Griffithidinae, Hesslerides, Kollarcephalus, Linguaphillipsia, Linguaphillipsiinae, Lugalella, Malchi, Nunnaspis, Osmolskia, Paladin, Phillipsia, Piltonia, Rhenogriffides, Thaiaspidinae, Thigriffides, Weaniinae, Weberides
Subtaxa: Spergenaspis easleyi Spergenaspis mauvaisensis Spergenaspis salemi
Type: Spergenaspis salemi
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Indiana, Missouri collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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