Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Full reference: R. A. Fortey and J. S. Peel. 1990. Early Ordovician trilobites and molluscs from the Poulsen Cliff Formation, Washington Land, western North Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 38(1):11-32
Belongs to Peltabellia according to R. A. Fortey and J. S. Peel 1990
Sister taxa: Peltabellia baumannensis, Peltabellia glabra, Peltabellia lata, Peltabellia peltabella, Peltabellia sibirica
Type specimen: MGUH 18.960, a pygidium. Its type locality is 'Winterhouses' (GGU 206483), which is in a Tremadocian platform/shelf-margin reef lime mudstone in the Poulsen Cliff Formation of Greenland.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at 'Winterhouses' (GGU 206483)
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