Lavadamia Adrain et al. 2003 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Proetida - Hystricuridae

Full reference: J. M. Adrain, D.-C. Lee, S. R. Westrop, B. D. E. Chatterton, and E. Landing. 2003. Classification of the trilobite subfamilies Hystricurinae and Hintzecurinae subfam. nov. with new genera from the Lower Ordovician (Ibexian) of Idaho and Utah. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48(2):553-586

Parent taxon: Hystricurinae according to J. M. Adrain et al. 2003

Sister taxa: Flectihystricurus, Tersella

Subtaxa: Lavadamia joplinae

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Type: Lavadamia joplinae

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at LDN 142.0-142.6, Lava Dam North ( of Utah)

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