Aciculolenus askewi Chatterton 2020 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Olenida - Olenidae

Full reference: B. D. E. Chatterton. 2020. Mid-Furongian trilobites and agnostids from the Wujiajiania lyndasmithae Subzone of the Elvinia Zone, McKay Group, southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 94(4):653-680

Belongs to Aciculolenus according to B. D. E. Chatterton 2020

Sister taxon: Aciculolenus peculiaris

Type specimen: RBCM-P977. Its type locality is Site 15. Bull River Valley, which is in a Steptoean deep subtidal mudstone/limestone in Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Site 15. Bull River Valley

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