Trilobita - Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Belongs to Oryctocephalites according to F. A. Sundberg and L. B. McCollum 1997
See also Palmer and Halley 1979 and Shimer and Shrock 1944
Sister taxa: Oryctocephalites (Parachangaspis), Oryctocephalites alexandriensis, Oryctocephalites burgessensis, Oryctocephalites gelasinus, Oryctocephalites incertus, Oryctocephalites kueizhouensis, Oryctocephalites limbatus, Oryctocephalites opiki, Oryctocephalites palmeri, Oryctocephalites rasettii, Oryctocephalites resseri, Oryctocephalites reynoldsi, Oryctocephalites runcinatus, Oryctocephalites salteri, Oryctocephalites sulcatus, Oryctocephalites vicinus
Type specimen: Its type locality is 54s - Near mouth of North side Two Mile Canyon, 2 miles se of Malad, Wasatch Mts, which is in a Menevian carbonate limestone in the Langston Formation of Idaho
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Delamaran of United States (3: Nevada collections)
• Cambrian of United States (1: Idaho)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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