Trilobita - Proetida - Hystricuridae
Alternative combination: Hystricurus acumennasus
Full reference: R. J., J.r. Ross. 1951. Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 6:1-161
Belongs to Flectihystricurus according to J. M. Adrain et al. 2003
See also Ross 1951
Sister taxa: Flectihystricurus flectimembrus, Flectihystricurus wilsoni
Type specimen: YPM 17980, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Locality 6, Hillyard's Canyon, Zone "F", which is in a Stairsian shallow subtidal horizon in the Garden City Formation of Idaho.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (3: Idaho collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.