Artiopoda - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Full reference: R. P. Tripp. 1980. Trilobites from the Ordovician Balclatchie and lower Ardwell groups of the Girvan district, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 71:123-145
Belongs to Physemataspis according to D. K. Moss and S. R. Westrop 2014
Sister taxa: Physemataspis (Physemataspis), Physemataspis (Prophysemataspis), Physemataspis coopi, Physemataspis insularis, Physemataspis tholus, Physemataspis torulatus
Type specimen: GLAHM A18542a, b, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is south bank of Penwhapple Burn immediately south of the power-house, which is in a Sandbian offshore siltstone/conglomerate in the Balclatchie Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at south bank of Penwhapple Burn immediately south of the power-house
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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