Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Parent taxon: Encrinurinae according to D. K. Moss and S. R. Westrop 2014
See also Evitt and Tripp 1977, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Billevittia, Brianurus, Coronocephalus, Cromus, Encrinuraspis, Encrinurus, Erratencrinurus, Fragiscutum, Frammia, Frencrinuroides, Johntempleia, Kailia, Physemataspis, Senticucullus, Walencrinuroides
Subtaxa: Encrinuroides edseli Encrinuroides gelaisi Encrinuroides hornei Encrinuroides obesus Encrinuroides periops Encrinuroides regularis Encrinuroides sexcostatus Encrinuroides stincharensis Encrinuroides zhenxiongensis
Type: Cybele sexcostata
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of China (21 collections), Greenland (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (2: Northwest Territories)
• Whiterockian of Canada (2: Quebec)
• Arenig of China (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (8), Canada (8: Northwest Territories, Nunvait, Ontario, Quebec), China (6), Estonia (3), Ireland (3), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (3), the Russian Federation (7), the United Kingdom (14), United States (5: Nevada, Virginia)
Total: 86 collections including 89 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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