Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Alternative combination: Phillipsia eurybathrea
Full reference: R. R. Hessler. 1963. Lower Mississippian Trilobites of the Family Proetidae in the United States Part I. Journal of Paleontology 37(3):543-563
Belongs to Piltonia according to D. Brezinski 1988
See also Hessler 1963
Sister taxa: Piltonia (Piltonia), Piltonia balor, Piltonia carlakertisae, Piltonia fryi, Piltonia kuehnei
Type specimen: OSU 22805, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Lodi, Medina County, which is in a Kinderhookian carbonate limestone in the Cuyahoga Formation of Ohio.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Lodi, Medina County
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