Artiopoda - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Full reference: Y. Howells. 1982. Scottish Silurian trilobites. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 135(561):1-70
Belongs to Encrinurus according to Y. Howells 1982
Sister taxa: Encrinurus (Nucleurus), Encrinurus confusevarus, Encrinurus deomenos, Encrinurus diabolus, Encrinurus expansus, Encrinurus fimbriatus, Encrinurus hagshawensis, Encrinurus hastula, Encrinurus hyperboreus, Encrinurus ishii, Encrinurus jini, Encrinurus lamonti, 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 stenorhachis, Encrinurus striatus, Encrinurus subtrigonalis, Encrinurus tosensis, Encrinurus trispinosus, Encrinurus yokokurensis
Type specimen: BM In23209, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Lauchlan Burn, which is in an Aeronian marine sandstone/siltstone in the Wood Burn Grits Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Lauchlan Burn
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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