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

Proetoidea
Temporal range: Ordovician–Lopingian
Gerastos tuberculatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Proetida
Superfamily: Proetoidea

Taxonomy edit

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 edit

  1. ^ a b c "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.

External links edit

PROETIDA FACT SHEET