Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae

Full reference: R. A. Fortey. 1979. Early Ordovician trilobites from the Catoche Formation (St. George Group), western Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 321:61-114

Parent taxon: Pliomeridae according to R. A. Fortey 1979

Sister taxa: Anapliomera, Benedettia, Colobinion, Encrinurella, Evropeites, Guizhoupliomerops, Hintzeia, Kanoshia, Obliteraspis, Ovalocephalus, Parapliomera, Perissopliomera, Placoparia, Pliomera, Pliomerella, Pliomeridius, Pliomerina, Pliomerops, Protopliomerella, Protopliomerops, Pseudomera, Quinquecosta, Rossaspis, Tesselacauda

Subtaxa: Canningella, Cybelopsis, Ectenonotus, Pseudocybele, Strotactinus

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Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore