Trilobita - Proetida - Telephinidae
Full reference: R. J., J.r. Ross. 1951. Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 6:1-161
Belongs to Carolinites according to R. A. Fortey et al. 2024
See also Henderson 1983, Laurie 2006, McCormick and Fortey 1999, Ross 1951 and Zhou and Zhou 2019
Sister taxa: Carolinites ekphymosus, Carolinites ichangensis, Carolinites indentus, Carolinites killaryensis, Carolinites macrophthalma, Carolinites rugosus, Carolinites sibiricus, Carolinites tasmaniensis
Subtaxa: Carolinites genacinaca genacinaca Carolinites genacinaca nevadensis
Type specimen: YPM 18081, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Locality 8, Clarkston Mountains, Zone "J", which is in a Blackhillsian shallow subtidal limestone in the Garden City Formation of Utah.
Ecology: nektonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada collection)
• Arenigian of China (5)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), Australia (2)
• Ordovician of Australia (3), Canada (4: Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador), China (7), Norway (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (17: California, Nevada, Utah)
• Tremadoc of Canada (3: Alberta)
• Ibexian of Norway (4)
Total: 50 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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