Artiopoda - Asaphida - Eurekiidae
Full reference: J. H. Stitt. 1971. Late Cambrian and earliest Ordovician trilobites, Timbered Hills and Lower Arbuckle Groups, Western Arbuckle Mountains, Murray County, Oklahom. Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 110:1 -83
Parent taxon: Eurekiidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Arcadiaspis, Bandalaspis, Bayfieldia, Corbina, Corbinia, Eurekia, Leocephalus, Lochmanaspis, Maladia, Tostonia
Subtaxa: Magnacephalus smilus
Type: Magnacephalus smilus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of United States (3: Oklahoma collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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