Acidiphorus spinifer Raymond 1925 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae

Full reference: P. E. Raymond. 1925. Some trilobites of the lower Middle Ordovician of eastern North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 67(1):1-180

Belongs to Acidiphorus according to P. E. Raymond 1925

Sister taxa: Acidiphorus brevispicatus, Acidiphorus brighti, Acidiphorus hesperia, Acidiphorus kindlei, Acidiphorus ligo, Acidiphorus lineotuberculatus, Acidiphorus moorei, Acidiphorus rostratus, Acidiphorus scorpionis, Acidiphorus wahwahensis, Acidiphorus whittingtoni, Acidiphorus williamsi, Goniotelina broeggeri, Goniotelina brevis, Goniotelina plicolabeonus, Goniotelina ensifer, Goniotelus unicornis

Type specimen: YPM 13028, a pygidium

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Whiterockian of Canada (8: Newfoundland and Labrador collections)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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