Pseudoolenoides derbyi Shaw 1974 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae

Full reference: F. C. Shaw. 1974. Simpson Group (Middle Ordovician) trilobites of Oklahoma. Paleontological Society Memoir 6:1-54

Belongs to Pseudoolenoides according to F. C. Shaw 1974

Sister taxa: Pseudoolenoides acicaudus, Pseudoolenoides aspinosus, Pseudoolenoides carterensis, Pseudoolenoides dilectus, Pseudoolenoides ludificatus, Pseudoolenoides oilcreekensis, Pseudoolenoides pogonipensis

Type specimen: OU 7952, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is WSC-75, West Spring Creek, which is in a Whiterockian shallow subtidal grainstone/shale in the Oil Creek Formation of Oklahoma.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at WSC-75, West Spring Creek

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