Borealarges warholi Adrain 2003 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Lichida - Lichidae

Full reference: J. M. Adrain. 2003. Validity and composition of the Silurian trilobite genera Borealarges and Dicranogmus, with new species from the Canadian Arctic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 40:749-763

Belongs to Borealarges according to J. M. Adrain 2003

Sister taxa: Borealarges bucklandii, Borealarges calei, Borealarges convexus, Borealarges fritillus, Borealarges kielcensis, Borealarges mikulicorum, Borealarges morrisoni, Borealarges nicoae, Borealarges patulus, Borealarges reedi, Borealarges renodis, Borealarges simplex, Borealarges tuckerae, Borealarges variabilis, Borealarges yulei

Type specimen: ROM 52462, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Lichidae, Cape Phillips Fm., Sheinwoodian part, ABR sects., Cornwallis Island, which is in a Sheinwoodian slope packstone/wackestone in the Cape Phillips Formation of Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Lichidae, Cape Phillips Fm., Sheinwoodian part, ABR sects., Cornwallis Island

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