Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Synonym: Bartoninus Tripp 1962
Full reference: B. N. Cooper. 1953. Trilobites from the Lower Champlainian formations of the Appalachian Valley. Geological Society of America Memoir 55:1-69
Parent taxon: Cheirurinae according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 1991
See also Edgecombe et al. 1999, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Azyptyx, Ceraurinus, Hadromeros, Leviceraurus, Paraceraurus
Subtaxa: Ceraurinella biformis Ceraurinella brevispina Ceraurinella chondra Ceraurinella frequens Ceraurinella intermedia Ceraurinella kasachstanica Ceraurinella kingstoni Ceraurinella latipyga Ceraurinella longispina Ceraurinella media Ceraurinella nahanniensis Ceraurinella necra Ceraurinella oepiki Ceraurinella polydorus Ceraurinella pompilia Ceraurinella scofieldi Ceraurinella seriata Ceraurinella tenuisculptus Ceraurinella typa Ceraurinella zhoui
Type: Ceraurinella typa
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of Canada (16: Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Quebec collections), United States (14: Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Vermont)
• Chazyan of Canada (17: Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories), United States (3: New York)
• Fennian of France (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (4), Canada (19: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Quebec), Ireland (2), Kazakhstan (2), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (7), the United Kingdom (8), United States (18: Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Iowa/Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 115 collections including 132 occurrences
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