†Thigriffides alamogordoensis Brezinski 2000 (trilobite)
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Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Full reference: D. K. Brezinski. 2000. Lower Mississippian trilobites from southern New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 74(6):1043-1064
Belongs to Thigriffides according to D. K. Brezinski 2000
Sister taxon: Thigriffides roundyi
Type specimen: CM 45993, a pygidium. Its type locality is Dead Mans Branch, Alamo Canyon, Lake Valley Formation, Alamogordo Member, Otero, which is in an Osagean deep subtidal shelf lime mudstone/wackestone in the Lake Valley Formation of New Mexico.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Dead Mans Branch, Alamo Canyon, Lake Valley Formation, Alamogordo Member, Otero
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