''Paraphillipsia'' is a genus of proetid

trilobite Trilobites (; meaning "three-lobed entities") are extinction, extinct marine arthropods that form the class (biology), class Trilobita. One of the earliest groups of arthropods to appear in the fossil record, trilobites were among the most succ ...

in the family

Phillipsiidae Phillipsiidae is a family of proetid trilobites, the various genera of which comprise some of the last of the trilobites, with a range that extended from the Kinderhookian epoch of the Lower Mississippian, to the end of Changhsingian age at P ...

. It is notable for being one of the last trilobites to go extinct during the

Permian–Triassic extinction event The Permian–Triassic extinction event (also known as the P–T extinction event, the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, the End-Permian extinction event, and colloquially as the Great Dying,) was an extinction ...

Species

*''P. aglypta'' *''P. inflata'' *''P. karpinskyi'' *''P. levigata'' *''P. midlemissi'' *''P. pahara'' *''P. taurica'' (synonymous with ''P. kussicum'', ''P. anfensis'', and ''P. netschaewi'') *''P. vnweberi''

References

{{Trilobite-stub Proetida genera Permian trilobites Permian–Triassic extinction event Cummingellinae