Phillipsiidae
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The Phillipsiidae comprise the last of the trilobite
Trilobite
Trilobites are a well-known fossil group of extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the Atdabanian stage of the Early Cambrian period , and they flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before...

s, with a range that extended from the Lower Mississippian (Kinderhookian), to the Upper Permian (Guadalupian).

The Phillipsiidae are sometimes defined as a subfamily, the Phillipsiinae, within the Proetidae
Proetidae
Proetidae is a family of trilobites. The first appeared in the Upper Ordovician, and were among the last surviving trilobites, occurring until the Carboniferous. The family Proetidae contains the following...

. Jell & Adrain (2003) went so far as to lump the Phillipsiidae into the Proetidae
Proetidae
Proetidae is a family of trilobites. The first appeared in the Upper Ordovician, and were among the last surviving trilobites, occurring until the Carboniferous. The family Proetidae contains the following...

, however other workers since like Lerosey-Aubril and Feist (2005) have continued to recognize the Phillipsiidae as a distinct and separate family within the trilbite order Proetida
Proetida
Proetida is an order of trilobite that lived from the Ordovician to the Permian. It was the last order of trilobite to go extinct, finally dying out in the Permian extinction....

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The following genera are included:
  • Acanthophillipsia
  • Acropyge
  • Ameropiltonia
  • Ameura
  • Ampulliglabella
  • Anisopyge
  • Bedicella
  • Breviphillipsia
  • Cummingella
  • Comptonaspis
  • Delaria
  • Ditomopyge
  • Doublatia
  • Endops
    Endops
    Endops is a genus of trilobite belonging to the proetid family Phillipsiidae which comes from the Permian of Japan. The type species is Paladin yanagisawai.-References:* Proetida fact sheet *Endops in Paleobiology db...

  • Griffithidella
  • Hentigia
  • Hesslerides
  • Iranaspidion
  • Jimbokranion
  • Kathwaia
  • Kollarcephalus
  • Microphillipsia
  • Neoproetus
  • Nipponaspis
  • Novoameura
  • Nunnaspis
  • Paraphillipsia
  • Permoproetus
  • Phillibole
  • Piltonia
  • Pseudophillipsia
  • Thigriffidaes
  • Timoraspis
  • Triproetus
  • Vidria
  • Weania
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