Artiopoda - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Full reference: N. E. B. McAdams and J. M. Adrain. 2009. New pliomerid trilobite genus Lemureops from the Lower Ordovician (Ibexian; Tulean, Blackhillsian) of western Utah, USA. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 37:491-540
Belongs to Lemureops according to N. E. B. McAdams and J. M. Adrain 2009
Sister taxa: Lemureops koppesi, Lemureops lemurei, Lemureops ploogi, Lemureops willsonpiperi
Type specimen: SUI 110162, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is H-191.7, which is in a Blackhillsian open shallow subtidal packstone/wackestone in the Fillmore Limestone Formation of Utah.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (3: Utah collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.