Bathyuriscus (Poliella) caranus Walcott 1916 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae

Alternative combination: Poliella caranus

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

Belongs to Bathyuriscus (Poliella) according to C.D. Walcott 1916

See also Resser 1935

Sister taxa: Bathyuriscus (Poliella) anteros, Bathyuriscus (Poliella) balus, Bathyuriscus (Poliella) occidentalis, Bathyuriscus (Poliella) powersi, Bathyuriscus (Poliella) primus, Bathyuriscus (Poliella) sylla, Poliella castlensis, Poliella denticulata, Poliella germana, Poliella leipalox, Poliella lomataspis, Poliella ovala, Bornemannia prima

Type specimen: USNM 62628

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Lead Bell Shale, Liberty (Cambrian of Idaho)

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