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 laciniata, Ceratocephala laticapitata, Ceratocephala phalaenocephala, Ceratocephala rarispina, Ceratocephala vexilla, Trapelocera bicuspis, Onychaspis laticapitata, Onchaspis confraga
Type specimen: USNM 116543. Its type locality is Loc. 1. Tumbling Run, 2 miles southwest of Strasburg, which is in a Blackriveran carbonate limestone in the Lincolnshire Limestone Formation of Virginia.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of United States (3: New York collections)
• Chazyan of Canada (7: Northwest Territories)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), United States (1: Virginia)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
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