Xiphosura - Xiphosurida - Belinuridae
Alternative combination: Bellinurus kiltorkensis
Full reference: W. H. Baily. 1870. On fossils obtained at Kiltorkan Quarry, Co. Kilkenny. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 39:73-75
Belongs to Belinurus according to J. C. Lamsdell 2022
See also Baily 1870, Lamsdell 2020, Lamsdell and Clapham 2021 and Woodward 1918
Sister taxa: Belinurus iswarinensis, Belinurus lacoei, Belinurus metschetensis, Belinurus silesiacus, Belinurus stepanovi, Belinurus sustai, Belinurus trilobitoides
Type specimen: Its type locality is Kiltorkan Quarry, which is in a Famennian fluvial siltstone in the Kiltorcan Formation of Ireland
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Kiltorkan Quarry
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