Carinocranium cariniferum Dean 1989 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae

Full reference: W. T. Dean. 1989. Trilobites from the Survey Peak, Outram and Skoki Formations (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) at Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta). Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin (389)1-141

Belongs to Carinocranium according to W. T. Dean 1989

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GSC 62139, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is GSC locality 92293, Outram Fm., Biozone J, Alberta, Canada - Dean 1989, which is in a Tremadoc transition zone/lower shoreface shale in the Outram Formation of Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at GSC locality 92293, Outram Fm., Biozone J, Alberta, Canada - Dean 1989

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