Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Dokimocephalidae

Parent taxon: Dokimocephalidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2003

Sister taxa: Bellaspidella, Bellaspis, Burnetiella, Calocephalites, Chalfontia, Conaspis, Deadwoodia, Deckera, Dellea, Dokimocephalus, Eshelmania, Glyptometopsis, Iddingsia, Jingxiania, Kindbladia, Kiowaia, Kyphocephalus, Lorrettina, Pseudosaratogia, Ritella, Sulcocephalus, Taenicephalina, Wuhuia

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore