†Elliptophillipsia rotundus Brezinski 2000 (trilobite)
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Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Full reference: D. K. Brezinski. 2000. New Lower Mississippian trilobites from the Chouteau Group of Missouri. Annals of Carnegie Museum 69(2):135-144
Belongs to Elliptophillipsia according to D. K. Brezinski 2000
Sister taxon: Elliptophillipsia ellipticus
Type specimen: CM 45118. Its type locality is Easley, Boone County, Chouteau Group, Compton Limestone, which is in a Kinderhookian offshore shelf lime mudstone/wackestone in the Compton Limestone Formation of Missouri.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Easley, Boone County, Chouteau Group, Compton Limestone
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