Remopleurides canadensis Billings 1865 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Full reference: E. Billings. 1865. Palaeozoic fossils, volume 1. Geological Survey of Canada 1-426

Belongs to Remopleurides according to F. C. Shaw and T. E. Bolton 2011

See also Billings 1865 and Raymond 1925

Sister taxa: Remopleurides (Hastiremopleurides), Remopleurides affluens, Remopleurides angularis, Remopleurides arenosus, Remopleurides asperulus, Remopleurides bertilloni, Remopleurides biaculeatus, Remopleurides broeggeri, Remopleurides caelatus, Remopleurides caphyroides, Remopleurides colbii, Remopleurides darlecarlicus, Remopleurides deani, Remopleurides emarginatus, Remopleurides epimera, Remopleurides eximius, Remopleurides granensis, Remopleurides inusitatus, Remopleurides kullsbergensis, Remopleurides laevigatus, Remopleurides latifrons, Remopleurides latus, Remopleurides ligulus, Remopleurides lunnerensis, Remopleurides minimus, Remopleurides missouriensis, Remopleurides nikolaiseni, Remopleurides occidens, Remopleurides panderi, Remopleurides pattersoni, Remopleurides paucus, Remopleurides perspicax, Remopleurides pilulus, Remopleurides plaesiourus, Remopleurides rugicostatus, Remopleurides simulus, Remopleurides striatus, Remopleurides variolaris, Remopleurides xiazhenensis

Type specimen: GSC 1760, a cephalon/head (cranidium)

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Chazyan of Canada (3: Northwest Territories collections), United States (3: New York)

• Whiterockian of Canada (2: Quebec), United States (15: New York, Vermont)

Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence

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