Encrinurus lamonti Tripp 1957 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae

Full reference: R. P. Tripp. 1957. The trilobite Encrinurus multisegmentatus (Portlock) and allied Middle and Upper Ordovician species. Palaeontology 1(1):60-72

Belongs to Encrinurus according to R. P. Tripp 1957

Sister taxa: Encrinurus confusevarus, Encrinurus deomenos, Encrinurus diabolus, Encrinurus expansus, Encrinurus fimbriatus, Encrinurus hagshawensis, Encrinurus hastula, Encrinurus hyperboreus, Encrinurus ishii, Encrinurus jini, Encrinurus laurentinus, Encrinurus longi, Encrinurus mamelon, Encrinurus mullochensis, Encrinurus multisegmentatus, Encrinurus niquivilensis, Encrinurus nodai, Encrinurus nodosarius, Encrinurus octocostatus, Encrinurus octonarius, Encrinurus priscus, Encrinurus punctatus, Encrinurus reflexus, Encrinurus rosensteinae, Encrinurus similis, Encrinurus spicatus, Encrinurus squarrosus, Encrinurus stateratus, Encrinurus stenorhachis, Encrinurus striatus, Encrinurus subtrigonalis, Encrinurus tosensis, Encrinurus trispinosus, Encrinurus yokokurensis

Type specimen: HM A. 4094a, b, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Glenmard Wood, Quarrel Hill, New Dailly, which is in a Rawtheyan marginal marine mudstone in the Lady Burn Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Glenmard Wood, Quarrel Hill, New Dailly

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