Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Full reference: P. E. Raymond. 1916. New and old Silurian trilobites from Southeastern Wisconsin, with notes on the genera of the Illaenidae. Bulletin of the Musuem of Comparative Zoology 60(1):1-42
Belongs to Cheirurus according to P. E. Raymond 1916
Sister taxa: Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina), Cheirurus (Pseudosphaerexochus), Cheirurus clasonii, Cheirurus dilatatus, Cheirurus glaber, Cheirurus juvenis, Cheirurus marianus, Cheirurus niagarensis, Cheirurus nuperus, Cheirurus punctatus, Cheirurus tarquininus, Cheirurus welleri
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Bumastus (Cybantyx) insignis Subassociation, Thornton Quarry (Silurian of Illinois)
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