Glossopleura baton Walcott 1916 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae

Alternative combinations: Anoria baton, Dolichometopus baton

Full reference: C.D. Walcott. 1916. Cambrian geology and paleontology III. No. 5. Cambrian trilobites. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 64:303-456

Belongs to Glossopleura according to J. R. Foster 2022

See also Resser 1935 and Walcott 1916

Sister taxa: Glossopleura alabamensis, Glossopleura bion, Glossopleura boccar, Glossopleura buttsi, Glossopleura expansa, Glossopleura gigantea, Glossopleura intermedia, Glossopleura leona, Glossopleura lodensis, Glossopleura mohavensis, Glossopleura packi, Glossopleura producta, Glossopleura similaris, Glossopleura sulcata, Glossopleura tuta, Glossopleura utahensis, Glossopleura walcotti

Type specimen: USNM 62696

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Glossopleura baton in the database

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.