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
Belongs to Lavadamia according to J. M. Adrain et al. 2003
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SUI 99587, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is LDN 142.0-142.6, Lava Dam North, which is in a Skullrockian open shallow subtidal horizon in the House Formation of Utah.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at LDN 142.0-142.6, Lava Dam North
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