Proetoidea

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Proetoidea
Temporal range: Ordovician–Lopingian
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Gerastos tuberculatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade:† Artiopoda
Class:† Trilobita
Order:† Proetida
Superfamily:† Proetoidea

Proetoidea is a superfamily of trilobites in the order Proetida. [1] [2]

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Taxonomy

The Proetoidea are closely related to the Aulacopleuroidea. [3] and are divided into three families: Phillipsiidae, Proetidae, and Tropidocophyridae. [1]

Phillipsiidae is not listed in some publications (e. g. Adrain, 2011) but is instead listed as a subfamily of the Proetidae. [4]

Family Phillipsiidae

Family Proetidae

Family Tropidocoryphidae

References

  1. 1 2 3 "PROETIDA". trilobites.info.
  2. ↑ "superfamily Proetoidea Hawle and Corda 1847 (trilobite)". Palaeobiology database.
  3. ↑ Lamsdell, James C.; Selden, Paul A. (2015). "Phylogenetic support for the monophyly of proetide trilobites". Lethaia . 48 (3): 375–386. Bibcode:2015Letha..48..375L. doi:10.1111/let.12113.
  4. ↑ Adrain, Jonothan M. "Class Trilobita Walch, 1771. In: Zhang, Z.-Q.(Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness."". Zootaxa .

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