Tulepyge tulensis Adrain and Westrop 2006 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Proetida - Dimeropygidae

Full reference: J. M. Adrain and S. R. Westrop. 2006. New genus of dimeropygid trilobites from the earliest Ordovician of Laurentia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(3):541-550

Belongs to Tulepyge according to J. M. Adrain and S. R. Westrop 2006

Sister taxon: Tulepyge paucituberculata

Type specimen: SUI 100169, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is B 1.1, House Range, which is in a Skullrockian shallow subtidal horizon in the House Formation of Utah.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at B 1.1, House Range

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