Protoconchioides hermitensis Resser 1945

Tergomya - Tryblidiida - Protoconchoididae

Alternative combinations: Scenella (Protoconchioides) hermitensis, Scenella hermitensis

Full reference: C. E. Resser. 1945. Cambrian history of the Grand Canyon region. Part II. Cambrian fossils of the Grand Canyon. Publications of the Carnegie Institution 563:171-220

Belongs to Protoconchioides according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Geyer 1994, Resser 1945 and Shaw 1962

Sister taxa: Protoconchioides conula, Protoconchioides douli, Protoconchioides rasettii, Protoconchioides varians, Protoconchioides virginica, Scenella (Protoconchioides) palmeri

Type specimen: Its type locality is Nankoweap Valley. near mouth of Grand Canyon, which is in a St Davids offshore limestone in the Muav Limestone Formation of Arizona.

Distribution: found only at Hermit Creek, U.S.N.M. loc. 73c

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