Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Alternative combinations: Peltabellia knighti, Peltabellia knightii
Full reference: W. D. Boyce. 1983. Preliminary Ordovician trilobite stratigraphy of the Eddies Cove West-Port au Choix area, western Newfoundland. Current Research 11-15
Belongs to Strigigenalis according to J. D. Loch 2007
See also Adrain and Westrop 2005, Boyce 1983, Boyce 1986 and Boyce 1989
Sister taxa: Strigigenalis brevicaudata, Strigigenalis caudata, Strigigenalis crassimarginata, Strigigenalis derbyi, Strigigenalis implexa, Strigigenalis insentis, Strigigenalis stevensi
Type specimen: NFM F-157, a pygidium. Its type locality is BH-46, which is in a Jeffersonian peritidal packstone/grainstone in the Boat Harbour Formation of Canada.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Newfoundland collection)
• Cassinian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Jeffersonian of Canada (5: Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Canadian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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