Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
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 Ceraurinella according to F.C. Shaw 1968
Sister taxa: Ceraurinella biformis, Ceraurinella brevispina, Ceraurinella chondra, Ceraurinella frequens, Ceraurinella intermedia, Ceraurinella kasachstanica, Ceraurinella kingstoni, 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: NYSM 12442, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is PB80-81, which is in a Whiterockian carbonate limestone/dolomite in the Crown Point Formation of New York.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of United States (11: New York, Vermont collections)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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