Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Full reference: A. W. Owen and D. L. Bruton. 2012. The only known cyclopygid–‘atheloptic’ trilobite fauna from North America: the upper Ordovician fauna of the Pyle Mountain Argillite and its palaeoenvironmental significance. Geological Magazine 149(6):964-988
Belongs to Dindymene according to A. W. Owen and D. L. Bruton 2012
Sister taxa: Dindymene brevicaudata, Dindymene fridericiaugusti, Dindymene longicaudata, Dindymene megacranidia, Dindymene ornata, Dindymene ovalis, Dindymene plasi
Type specimen: PMO 141.947, a pygidium. Its type locality is Drainage ditch on the south side of Dudley Road, 70 m west of end of Turner Rd., which is in an Ashgill deep subtidal siltstone in the Pyle Mountain Argillite Formation of Maine.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Drainage ditch on the south side of Dudley Road, 70 m west of end of Turner Rd.
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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