Kirkella yersini Hintze 1953 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae

Full reference: L. F. Hintze. 1953. Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea. Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Bulletin 48:249 p.

Belongs to Kirkella according to L. F. Hintze 1953

Sister taxa: Kirkella declevita, Ptyocephalus acclivus, Ptyocephalus vigilans, Kirkella fillmorensis

Type specimen: 26281 (AMNH), an exoskeleton (cranidium)

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Kirkella yersini in the database

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