Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Full reference: A. Rõõmusoks. 2000. The new trilobite genus Valdariops from the Harju Series (Upper Ordovician) of Estonia. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Geology 49:28-42
Belongs to Valdariops according to A. Rõõmusoks 2000
Sister taxa: Valdariops aliquantulus, Valdariops eichwaldi, Valdariops kernuensis
Type specimen: ELM g 149:486, a cephalon/head. Its type locality is Kernu quarry, which is in a Vormsi marine horizon in the Kõrgessaare Formation of Estonia.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Estonia (6 collections), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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