Trilobita - Proetida - Telephinidae
Alternative combination: Carrickia pinguimitra
Full reference: B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen. 1976. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites from the South Nahanni River Area, District of Mackenzie, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 154(1-3):1-106
Belongs to Phorocephala according to B. D. E. Chatterton 1980
See also Tremblay and Westrop 1991
Sister taxa: Phorocephala pelagia, Phorocephala setoni, Phorocephala shizipuensis, Phorocephala typa
Type specimen: GSC 43414, a cephalon/head (cranidium)
Ecology: nektonic microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Chazyan of Canada (7: Northwest Territories collections)
• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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