Remopleurides pilulus Whittington 1965 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Full reference: H. B. Whittington. 1965. Trilobites of the Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 132(4):275-441

Belongs to Remopleurides according to H. B. Whittington 1965

Sister taxa: Remopleurides (Hastiremopleurides), Remopleurides affluens, Remopleurides angularis, Remopleurides arenosus, Remopleurides asperulus, Remopleurides bertilloni, Remopleurides biaculeatus, Remopleurides broeggeri, Remopleurides caelatus, Remopleurides canadensis, 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 plaesiourus, Remopleurides rugicostatus, Remopleurides simulus, Remopleurides striatus, Remopleurides variolaris, Remopleurides xiazhenensis

Type specimen: GSC 18570, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Table Cove, which is in a Chazyan slope limestone/shale in the Table Cove Formation of Canada.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Table Cove

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