Trilobita - Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Alternative combination: Hystricurus paucituberculatus
Full reference: R. A. Fortey. 1983. Cambrian-Ordovican trilobites from the boundary beds in western Newfoundland and their phylogenetic significance. in D. E. G. Briggs and P. D. Lane, eds, Trilobites and other Early Arthropods, Special Papers in Palaeontology 30 179-211
Belongs to Tulepyge according to J. M. Adrain and S. R. Westrop 2006
See also Fortey 1983
Sister taxon: Tulepyge tulensis
Type specimen: ROM 42292, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is B1 boulder bed, Broom Point South, which is in a Tremadocian carbonate grainstone/mudstone in the Green Point Formation of Canada.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Canada (5: Newfoundland and Labrador collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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