Trilobita - 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 brachyphasis, Aphelaspis buttsi, Aphelaspis constricta, Aphelaspis granulata, Aphelaspis longifrons, Aphelaspis longispina, Aphelaspis spinosa, Aphelaspis subditus, Labiostria conveximarginata, Labiostria gibbae, Labiostria westropi, Labiostria sigmoidalis
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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