Artiopoda - Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Full reference: M. Ghobadi Pour. 2022. Trilobites of trinucleid, raphiophorid and cyclopygid associations from the Ordovician (Darriwilian – early Katian) of the west Balkhash region and Betpak-Dala, Central Kazakhstan. Papers in Palaeontology
Belongs to Shumardia according to M. Ghobadi Pour 2022
Sister taxa: Shumardia (Conophrys), Shumardia (Shumardia), Shumardia acuticaudata, Shumardia alata, Shumardia ctenata, Shumardia erquensis, Shumardia exopthalmus, Shumardia extensa, Shumardia granulosa, Shumardia keguqinensis, Shumardia lacrimosa, Shumardia matchensis, Shumardia minaretta, Shumardia phalloides, Shumardia sagittula, Shumardia tarimuensis
Type specimen: NMW 2008.34G.292, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Locality B-1, which is in a Sandbian marine siltstone in the Kopkurgan Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Locality B-1
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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