Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Alternative combination: Cheirurus icarus
Synonyms: Ceraurinella elongatus Schuchert and Cooper 1930, Ceraurinus elongatus Schuchert and Cooper 1930
Belongs to Ceraurinus according to W. H. Twenhofel 1928
See also Lespérance 1968 and Lespérance and Weissenberger 1998
Sister taxa: Ceraurinus daedalus, Ceraurinus glabra, Ceraurinus marginatus, Ceraurinus platycanthus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (2: Québec collections)
• Ordovician of Canada (7: Nunavut, Quebec), the Russian Federation (10), United States (12: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio)
Total: 31 collections including 32 occurrences
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