Artiopoda - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Full reference: H. B. Whittington. 1956. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites: the Odontopleuridae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 114(6):155-288
Belongs to Primaspis according to H. B. Whittington 1956
Sister taxa: Primaspis (Chlustinia), Primaspis (Primaspis), Primaspis (Taemasaspis), Primaspis bestorpensis, Primaspis churkini, Primaspis evoluta, Primaspis multispinosa
Type specimen: USNM 116515, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Loc. 10, Greenmount Church area, which is in a Chatfieldian carbonate shale in the Martinsburg Formation of Virginia.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Loc. 10, Greenmount Church area
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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