Mummaspis macer Resser and Howell 1938 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Redlichiida - Laudoniidae

Alternative combinations: Holmia macer, Wanneria macer

Full reference: C. E. Resser and B. F. Howell. 1938. Lower Cambrian Olenellus zone of the Appalachians. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 49:195-248

Belongs to Mummaspis according to B. S. Lieberman 1999

See also Fritz 1973 and Resser and Howell 1938

Sister taxa: Mummaspis delgadoae, Mummaspis muralensis, Mummaspis oblisooculatus, Mummaspis occidens, Mummaspis truncatooculatus

Type specimen: Its type locality is USNM Loc. 12w. Fruitville, 3 miles north of Lancaster, which is in a Dyeran marine shale in the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Mummaspis macer in the database

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