Artiopoda - Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Full reference: R. J., J.r. Ross. 1951. Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 6:1-161
Parent taxon: Dimeropygidae according to J. M. Adrain et al. 2001
See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Whittington 1963
Sister taxa: Bearriverops, Chomatopyge, Dimeropyge, Heckethornia, Ischyrotoma, Mesotaphraspidinae, Mesotaphraspis, Pseudohystricurus, Toernquistia, Tulepyge, Toernquistina
Subtaxa: Dimeropygiella blanda Dimeropygiella caudanodosa Dimeropygiella fillmorensis Dimeropygiella mccormicki Dimeropygiella ovata
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of United States (6: Utah collections)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Alberta), United States (26: California, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah)
Total: 34 collections including 39 occurrences
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