Artiopoda - Proetida - Hystricuridae
Full reference: J. M. Adrain, N. E. B. McAdams, and S. R. Westrop. 2009. Trilobite biostratigraphy and revised bases of the Tulean and Blackhillsian Stages of the Ibexian Series, Lower Ordovician, western United States. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 37:541-610
Belongs to Litzicurus according to J. M. Adrain et al. 2009
Sister taxon: Litzicurus orbus
Type specimen: SUI 115469, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is HC6 142.0, Hillyard's Canyon, which is in a Tulean shallow subtidal lime mudstone/packstone in the Garden City Formation of Idaho.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (2: Idaho collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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