Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae

Alternative combination: Coosia calanus

Full reference: C.D. Walcott. 1916. Cambrian geology and paleontology III. No. 5. Cambrian trilobites. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 64:303-456

Belongs to Asaphiscus according to C.D. Walcott 1916

See also Resser 1935

Sister taxa: Asaphiscus (Blainia), Asaphiscus agatho, Asaphiscus anaxis, Asaphiscus duris, Asaphiscus florus, Asaphiscus glaber, Asaphiscus iddingsi, Asaphiscus laeviceps, Asaphiscus minor, Asaphiscus wheeleri

Type specimen: USNM 62789-90

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Nolichucky Fm (Cambrian of Virginia)

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