Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Alternative combinations: Dionide perplexa, Proetus perplexus
Full reference: E. Billings. 1866. Catalogues of the Silurian fossils of the Island of Anticosti, with descriptions of some new genera and species 1-93
Belongs to Stelckaspis according to B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen 2004
See also Billings 1866 and Twenhofel 1928
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GSC 2559, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is AN12, which is in a Telychian open shallow subtidal shale/limestone in the Jupiter Formation of Canada.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (4: Quebec collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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