Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae

Alternative combinations: Pseudosphaerexochus juvenis, Sphaerexochus juvenis

Belongs to Cheirurus according to Salter 1866

See also Stubblefield 1938

Sister taxa: Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina), Cheirurus (Pseudosphaerexochus), Cheirurus clasonii, Cheirurus dilatatus, Cheirurus glaber, Cheirurus marianus, Cheirurus niagarensis, Cheirurus nuperus, Cheirurus patens, Cheirurus punctatus, Cheirurus tarquininus, Cheirurus welleri

Type specimen: GSM 24535 [lectotype selected by Whittington 1965], a cephalon/head (cranidium)

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cheirurus juvenis in the database

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