Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Full reference: H. B. Whittington and W.R., I.I. Evitt. 1953. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites. Geological Society of America Memoir 59:1-139
Belongs to Ceratocephala according to H. B. Whittington and W.R., II. Evitt 1953
Sister taxa: Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina), Ceratocephala depauperata, Ceratocephala exigua, Ceratocephala goniata, Ceratocephala graffhami, Ceratocephala impedita, Ceratocephala laticapitata, Ceratocephala phalaenocephala, Ceratocephala rarispina, Ceratocephala triacantheis, Ceratocephala vexilla, Onchaspis confraga, Onychaspis laticapitata, Trapelocera bicuspis
Type specimen: USNM 116502. Its type locality is Loc. 2. edge of quarry, just north of RR tracks ΒΌ mile west of Strasburg Junction, which is in an Ashbyan carbonate limestone in the Edinburg Formation of Virginia.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (4: Virginia collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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