Remopleurides caphyroides Whittington 1959 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Full reference: H. B. Whittington. 1959. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites: Remopleuridae, Trinucleidae, Raphiophoridae, Endymioniidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 121(8):371-496

Belongs to Remopleurides according to H. B. Whittington 1959

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

Type specimen: USNM 137681, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Loc. 3. south side of road, 0.2 mile east of Strasburg Junction, which is in a Turinian carbonate limestone in the Edinburg Formation of Virginia.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Ordovician of United States (6: Virginia collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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