Richterella hessleri Brezinski 2000 (trilobite)

Trilobita - 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 Richterella according to D. K. Brezinski 2000

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CM 45124, a cephalon/head. Its type locality is Warren, Marion County, Chouteau Group, Compton Limestone, which is in a Kinderhookian sand shoal grainstone/packstone in the Compton Limestone Formation of Missouri.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Warren, Marion County, Chouteau Group, Compton Limestone

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