Ocruranus kangerluk Peel 2021 (mollusk)

Aculifera - Halkieriidae

Full reference: J. S. Peel. 2021. An outer shelf shelly fauna from Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia). Journal of Paleontology Memoir 95(83):1-41

Belongs to Ocruranus according to J. S. Peel 2021

Sister taxa: Ocruranus finial, Ocruranus modestus, Ocruranus septentrionalis, Ocruranus trulliformis

Type specimen: PMU 36979, a shell. Its type locality is GGU 315045. Navarana Fjord, Lauge Koch Land, which is in a Dyeran carbonate dolomite in the Aftenstjernesø Formation of Greenland.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at GGU 315045. Navarana Fjord, Lauge Koch Land

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