Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae

Full reference: P. A. Jell. 1985. Tremadoc trilobites of the Digger Island Formation, Waratah Bay, Victoria. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 46:53-88

Parent taxon: Pilekiinae according to F. Perez-Peris et al. 2021

See also Jell 1985, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Anacheirurus, Chashania, Courtessolium, Demeterops, Emsurina, Eocheirurus, Koraipsis, Macrogrammus, Metapilekia, Metapliomerops, Parapilekia, Pilekia, Pliomeroides, Pseudopliomera, Seisonia, Sinoparapilekia, Sinoparapilekiini, Tesselacauda, Tienshihfuia, Victorispina, Yinaspis

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at NMVPL184. Digger Island. Waratah Bay (Ordovician of Australia)

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