Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 165885

Full reference: W. Haas, G. Hahn, and R. Hahn. 1980. Perm-Trilobiten aus Afghanistan. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 169(4-6):73-127

Belongs to Hentigia according to W. Haas et al. 1980

Sister taxa: Hentigia argops, Hentigia ornata, Hentigia planops

Type specimen: GPIBo/HaHa 28, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dahane Markhana, Malestan, which is in an Artinskian marine limestone in Afghanistan.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Average measurements (in mm): body 21.0 x 9.4, pygidium 5.63 x 6.02