Artiopoda - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
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 Ceraurinella according to H. B. Whittington and W.R., II. Evitt 1953
Sister taxa: Ceraurinella biformis, Ceraurinella brevispina, Ceraurinella frequens, Ceraurinella intermedia, Ceraurinella kasachstanica, Ceraurinella kingstoni, Ceraurinella latipyga, Ceraurinella longispina, Ceraurinella media, Ceraurinella nahanniensis, Ceraurinella necra, Ceraurinella oepiki, Ceraurinella polydorus, Ceraurinella pompilia, Ceraurinella scofieldi, Ceraurinella seriata, Ceraurinella tenuisculptus, Ceraurinella typa, Ceraurinella zhoui
Type specimen: USNM 116545. 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: found only at Loc. 1. Tumbling Run, 2 miles southwest of Strasburg
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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