Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Full reference: D. K. Brezinski. 2000. New Lower Mississippian trilobites from the Chouteau Group of Missouri. Annals of Carnegie Museum 69(2):135-144
Belongs to Perexigupyge according to D. K. Brezinski 2000
Sister taxa: Perexigupyge gerki, Perexigupyge hodgesi, Perexigupyge loganensis
Type specimen: CM 45121. Its type locality is Warren, Marion County, Chouteau Group, Compton Limestone, which is in a Kinderhookian sand shoal grainstone/packstone in the Compton Limestone Formation of Missouri.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Missouri collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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