Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Full reference: B. N. Cooper. 1953. Trilobites from the Lower Champlainian formations of the Appalachian Valley. Geological Society of America Memoir 55:1-69
Belongs to Ceraurinella according to B. N. Cooper 1953
Sister taxa: Ceraurinella biformis, Ceraurinella brevispina, Ceraurinella chondra, 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 zhoui
Type specimen: USNM 116473b, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Loc. 3. south side of road, 0.2 mile east of Strasburg Junction, which is in a Turinian carbonate limestone in the Edinburg Formation of Virginia.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (5: Virginia collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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