Trilobita - Proetida - Hystricuridae
Full reference: J. M. Adrain, D.-C. Lee, S. R. Westrop, B. D. E. Chatterton, and E. Landing. 2003. Classification of the trilobite subfamilies Hystricurinae and Hintzecurinae subfam. nov. with new genera from the Lower Ordovician (Ibexian) of Idaho and Utah. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48(2):553-586
Belongs to Ibexicurus according to J. M. Adrain et al. 2003
Sister taxon: Ibexicurus hillyardensis
Type specimen: SUI 99599, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is LDN 115.6, Lava Dam North, which is in a Skullrockian open shallow subtidal horizon in the House Formation of Utah.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at LDN 115.6, Lava Dam North
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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