Thaleops longispina Shaw 1968 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Corynexochida - Illaenidae

Full reference: F.C. Shaw. 1968. Early Middle Ordovician (Chazy) trilobites of New York. New York State Museum and Science Service Memoir 17:1-163

Belongs to Thaleops according to F.C. Shaw 1968

Sister taxa: Thaleops arctura, Thaleops conifrons, Thaleops conradi, Thaleops depressicapitata, Thaleops jaanussoni, Thaleops laurentiana, Thaleops nunavutica, Thaleops ovata, Thaleops punctata, Thaleops raymondi, Thaleops vindex

Type specimen: Cornell Univ Mus no. 34045, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is (CP) Crown Point, which is in a Whiterockian carbonate limestone/dolomite in the Crown Point Formation of New York.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Whiterockian of United States (3: New York, Vermont collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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