Frencrinuroides gibber Dean 1979 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Phacopida - Encrinuridae

Alternative combinations: Encrinuroides gibber, Encrinurus gibber

Full reference: W. T. Dean. 1979. Trilobites from the Long Point Group (Ordovician), Port au Port Peninsula, southwestern Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 290:1-53

Belongs to Frencrinuroides according to P. J. Lespérance and D. Desbiens 1995

See also Dean 1979, Edgecombe and Chatterton 1990 and Moss and Westrop 2014

Sister taxon: Frencrinuroides capitonis

Type specimen: GSC 38650, a pygidium

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at GSC 84824. Western end of Salmon Cove, Long Point Peninsula (Ordovician of Newfoundland)

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