Artiopoda - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Full reference: L. Ramsköld. 1986. Silurian encrinurid trilobites from Gotland and Dalarna, Sweden. Palaeontology 29(3):527-575
Parent taxon: Encrinurus according to L. Ramsköld 1986
See also Edgecombe and Chatterton 1990, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Encrinurus confusevarus, Encrinurus deomenos, Encrinurus diabolus, Encrinurus expansus, Encrinurus fimbriatus, Encrinurus hagshawensis, Encrinurus hastula, Encrinurus hyperboreus, Encrinurus ishii, Encrinurus jini, Encrinurus lamonti, Encrinurus laurentinus, Encrinurus longi, Encrinurus mamelon, Encrinurus mullochensis, Encrinurus multisegmentatus, Encrinurus niquivilensis, Encrinurus nodai, Encrinurus nodosarius, Encrinurus octocostatus, Encrinurus octonarius, Encrinurus priscus, Encrinurus punctatus, Encrinurus reflexus, Encrinurus rosensteinae, Encrinurus similis, Encrinurus spicatus, Encrinurus squarrosus, Encrinurus stateratus, Encrinurus stenorhachis, Encrinurus striatus, Encrinurus subtrigonalis, Encrinurus tosensis, Encrinurus trispinosus, Encrinurus yokokurensis
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Trilobites of the Encrinurus (Nucleurus) abyssalis Community in the East Baltic (Silurian of Latvia)