Artiopoda - Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Synonym: Aphelaspis hamblenensis Resser 1938
Full reference: C. E. Resser. 1938. Cambrian System (restricted) of the southern Appalachians. 15:1-131
Belongs to Aphelaspis according to C. E. Resser 1938
See also Palmer 1954
Sister taxa: Aphelaspis arsoides, Aphelaspis australis, Aphelaspis brachyphasis, Aphelaspis buttsi, Aphelaspis camiro, Aphelaspis constricta, Aphelaspis granulata, Aphelaspis haguei, Aphelaspis inermis, Aphelaspis longifrons, Aphelaspis longispina, Aphelaspis quadrata, Aphelaspis spinosa, Aphelaspis subditus, Aphelaspis tarda, Aphelaspis tumifrons, Labiostria conveximarginata, Labiostria sigmoidalis, Labiostria westropi, Labiostria gibbae
Type specimens:
- Aphelaspis walcotti: USNM 94923
- Aphelaspis hamblenensis: USNM 94930. Its type locality is Locality 119b, Cub Creek, 1.5 miles southeast of Morristown, which is in a Dresbachian marine shale in the Nolichucky Formation of Tennessee.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of United States (45: Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming collections)
Total: 45 collections each including a single occurrence
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