Full reference: C. Lochman. 1948. New Cambrian Trilobite Genera from Northwest Sonora, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 22(4):451-464
Parent taxon: Ptychopariacea according to F. A. Sundberg and L. B. McCollum 2000
See also Eddy and McCollum 1998, Jell and Adrain 2002, Palmer and Halley 1979 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Eokochaspis, Hadrocephalites, Kochina
Subtaxa: Mexicella antelopea Mexicella grandoculus Mexicella granulata Mexicella mexicana Mexicella obscurus Mexicella robusta Mexicella stator
Type: Mexicella mexicana
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Solvan of United States (55: Nevada collections)
• Delamaran of Canada (2: Alberta), Mexico (1), United States (17: California, Nevada, Nevada and California)
• Cambrian of Argentina (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), United States (8: Nevada, Vermont)
Total: 85 collections including 93 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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