Trilobita - Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Full reference: H. B. Whittington and W.R., I.I. Evitt. 1953. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites. Geological Society of America Memoir 59:1-139
Parent taxon: Dimeropygidae according to J. M. Adrain and S. R. Westrop 2007
See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Owen 1981, Owen and Bruton 1980 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bearriverops, Chomatopyge, Dimeropyge, Dimeropygiella, Heckethornia, Ischyrotoma, Mesotaphraspidinae, Pseudohystricurus, Toernquistia, Tulepyge, Toernquistina
Subtaxa: Mesotaphraspis bockeliei Mesotaphraspis dalfaskensis Mesotaphraspis inornata Mesotaphraspis parva
Type: Mesotaphraspis parva
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Ireland (1 collection), Kazakhstan (2), Norway (6), the United Kingdom (7), United States (5: Pennsylvania, Virginia)
Total: 21 collections including 22 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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