Denella cumera Ludvigsen and Chatterton 1982 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae

Full reference: R. Ludvigsen and B. D. E. Chatterton. 1982. Ordovician Pterygometopidae (Trilobita) of North America. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 19:2179-2206

Belongs to Denella according to R. Ludvigsen and B. D. E. Chatterton 1982

Sister taxon: Denella goodridgii

Type specimen: UA 3939, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is District of Mackenzie Ceraurus mackenziensis zone, which is in an Edenian deep subtidal limestone in the Whittaker Formation of Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at District of Mackenzie Ceraurus mackenziensis zone

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