Xylabion craigensis Tripp 1954 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Phacopida - Cheiruridae

Alternative combination: Ceraurinus craigensis

Full reference: R. P. Tripp. 1954. Caradocian trilobites from the mudstones at Craighead Quarry, near Girvan, Ayrshire. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 62(3):655-693

Belongs to Xylabion according to P. D. Lane 1971

See also Tripp 1954

Sister taxon: Xylabion kirkdandiensis

Type specimen: A.3921a, b, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Craighead Quarry, which is in a Caradoc marine mudstone in the Craighead Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Craighead Quarry

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