Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Alternative combinations: Cheirurus cancrurus, Skelipyx cancrura
Full reference: J. W. Salter. 1853. On a few genera of Irish Silurian fossils. Report of the 22nd meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1852:59-61
Belongs to Pseudosphaerexochus according to I. W. Gapp et al. 2012
See also Lane 1971 and Salter 1853
Sister taxa: Pseudosphaerexochus tuberculatus, Skelipyx lata
Type specimen: Its type locality is Chair of Kildare, eastern Ireland, which is in a Hirnantian reef, buildup or bioherm reef rocks/mudstone in the Kildare Limestone Formation of Ireland
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Chair of Kildare, eastern Ireland
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