The Condylopygidae[2] are a family of small trilobites that lived during the Middle Cambrian, and found in Canada (Newfoundland and Nova Scotia), the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Spain, England, Wales, Sweden, and the Russian Federation (Siberia).
The Condylopygidae are the only family assigned to the superfamily Condylopygoidea.
The Condylopygoidea are an isolated branch in the Agnostina suborder that occur approximately contemporaneously with the Peronopsidae, the earliest representatives of the main branch of the Agnostina.
One species, Peronopsis palmadon, appears intermediate between Peronopsidae and Condylopygidae, but it is not clear whether P. palmadon is ancestral to the Condylopygidae - a regression towards ancestral characters or an example of parallel evolution.
[3] Like all Agnostida, members of the Condylopygidae are relatively small and isopygous with the cephalon and pygidium of approximately similar size and outline.