Parayoungia mclaughlini Adrain 1998 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae

Full reference: J. M. Adrain. 1998. Systematics of the Acanthoparyphinae (Trilobita), with Species from the Silurian of Arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology 72(4):698-718

Belongs to Parayoungia according to J. M. Adrain 1998

Sister taxa: Parayoungia brennardi, Parayoungia eleyae, Parayoungia folinsbeei, Parayoungia tuberculata, Ichiyamella subglobula

Type specimen: ROM 51398, a pygidium. Its type locality is GSC C-22184, Baillie-Hamilton Is., which is in a Sheinwoodian slope limestone/shale in the Cape Phillips Formation of Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at GSC C-22184, Baillie-Hamilton Is.

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