Artiopoda - Proetida - Otarionidae
Full reference: C. D. Walcott. 1884. Paleontology of the Eureka district. United States Geological Survey Monograph 8(8):1-298
Belongs to Cyphaspis according to C. D. Walcott 1884
Sister taxa: Cyphaspis advena, Cyphaspis agayuara, Cyphaspis akkae, Cyphaspis barrandei, Cyphaspis bluhmi, Cyphaspis boninoi, Cyphaspis ceratophthalmoides, Cyphaspis ceratophthalmus, Cyphaspis convexum, Cyphaspis dabrowni, Cyphaspis eberhardiei, Cyphaspis eximia, Cyphaspis foumzguidensis, Cyphaspis globosus, Cyphaspis hamidi, Cyphaspis heisingi, Cyphaspis heissae, Cyphaspis hoepfneri, Cyphaspis hydrocephala, Cyphaspis ihmadii, Cyphaspis juergenhollandi, Cyphaspis khraidensis, Cyphaspis kippingi, Cyphaspis lacrimara, Cyphaspis lerougei, Cyphaspis maharchensis, Cyphaspis rommersheimensis, Cyphaspis slocomi, Cyphaspis smeenki, Cyphaspis tadachachtensis, Cyphaspis unguloides, Cyphaspis walteri
Type specimen: Its type locality is East slope of ridge east of the Hamburg Ridge, which is in a Blackhillsian carbonate limestone in the Goodwin Formation of Nevada
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at East slope of ridge east of the Hamburg Ridge
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