Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Alternative combination: Walencrinuroides gelaisi
Full reference: P. J. Lespérance and D. Desbiens. 1995. Selected Ordovician trilobites from the Lake St. John District of Quebec and their bearing on systematics. Paleontological Society Memoir 42:1-19
Belongs to Encrinuroides according to D. K. Moss and S. R. Westrop 2014
See also Lespérance and Desbiens 1995
Sister taxa: Encrinuroides edseli, Encrinuroides hornei, Encrinuroides obesus, Encrinuroides periops, Encrinuroides regularis, Encrinuroides sexcostatus, Encrinuroides stincharensis, Encrinuroides zhenxiongensis
Type specimen: GSC 110326, an exoskeleton (enrolled exoskeleton). Its type locality is Quarry 1.5 km north of the Ouiatchouaniche River, Roberval, which is in an Edenian carbonate shale/wackestone in the Shipshaw Formation of Canada.
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Canada (4: Quebec collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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