Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Alternative combination: Jeffersonia peltabella
Full reference: R. J., J.r. Ross. 1951. Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 6:1-161
Belongs to Peltabellia according to R. A. Fortey and D. L. Bruton 2013
See also Whittington 1953
Sister taxa: Peltabellia baumannensis, Peltabellia elegans, Peltabellia glabra, Peltabellia lata, Peltabellia sibirica
Type specimen: YPM 18056, a pygidium. Its type locality is Locality 5, Hillyard's Canyon, Zone "G(2)e", lower, which is in a Tulean shallow subtidal limestone/conglomerate in the Garden City Formation of Idaho.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Locality 5, Hillyard's Canyon, Zone "G(2)e", lower
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