Bearriverops deltaensis Adrain and Westrop 2007 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Proetida - Dimeropygidae

Full reference: J. M. Adrain and S. R. Westrop. 2007. Bearriverops, a new Lower Ordovician trilobite genus from the Great Basin, western USA, and classification of the family Dimeropygidae. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44:337-366

Belongs to Bearriverops according to J. M. Adrain and S. R. Westrop 2007

Sister taxa: Bearriverops alsacharovi, Bearriverops borderinnensis, Bearriverops ibexensis, Bearriverops loganensis

Type specimen: SUI 99908, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is MME 84, Middle Mountain, which is in a Stairsian shallow subtidal lime mudstone/grainstone in the Fillmore Formation of Utah.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at MME 84, Middle Mountain

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