Kainella eleutherolfi Pratt 1988 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Full reference: B. R. Pratt. 1988. An Ibexian (Early Ordovician) trilobite faunule from the type section of the Rabbitkettle Formation (southern Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 25:1595-1607

Belongs to Kainella according to B. R. Pratt 1988

Sister taxa: Kainella billingsi, Kainella conica, Kainella flagricauda, Kainella meridionalis, Kainella teiichii

Type specimen: ROM 45748b, a pygidium. Its type locality is Section 14, Flat River near Tungsten, which is in a Tremadoc marine siltstone/lime mudstone in the Rabbitkettle Formation of Canada.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Section 14, Flat River near Tungsten

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