Trilobita - 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 Ceratocephala according to H. B. Whittington 1956
Sister taxa: Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina), Ceratocephala depauperata, Ceratocephala exigua, Ceratocephala goniata, Ceratocephala graffhami, Ceratocephala impedita, Ceratocephala laciniata, Ceratocephala laticapitata, Ceratocephala phalaenocephala, Ceratocephala triacantheis, Ceratocephala vexilla, Onychaspis laticapitata, Onchaspis confraga, Trapelocera bicuspis
Type specimen: USNM 116527, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Loc. 8, Greenmount Church area, which is in a Turinian carbonate limestone in the Oranda Formation of Virginia.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Loc. 8, Greenmount Church area
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