Artiopoda - Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae

Full reference: D. P. Legg. 1976. Ordovician trilobites and graptolites from the Canning Basin, western Australia. Geologica et Palaeontologica 10:1-58

Belongs to Shumardia according to D. P. Legg 1976

Sister taxa: Shumardia (Conophrys), Shumardia (Shumardia), Shumardia acuticaudata, Shumardia alata, Shumardia ctenata, Shumardia erquensis, Shumardia exopthalmus, Shumardia extensa, Shumardia granulosa, Shumardia karasaiensis, Shumardia keguqinensis, Shumardia lacrimosa, Shumardia minaretta, Shumardia phalloides, Shumardia sagittula, Shumardia tarimuensis

Type specimen: UWA 71433, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Core 15, Matches Springs No. 1, Canning Basin, which is in a Darriwilian carbonate shale/limestone in the Goldwyer Formation of Australia.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Core 15, Matches Springs No. 1, Canning Basin

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