Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Alternative combination: Remopleurides similus
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 R. J. Ross and C. R. Longwell 1964
See also 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 caphyroides, 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 striatus, Remopleurides variolaris, Remopleurides xiazhenensis
Type specimen: USNM 137687, 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:
• Whiterockian of United States (3: Nevada collections)
• Ordovician of United States (1: Virginia)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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