Encrinurus multisegmentatus Portlock 1843 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae

Belongs to Encrinurus according to R. P. Tripp 1957

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 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

Type specimen: GSM 35416, a pygidium. Its type locality is Desertcreat, which is in a Pusgillian/Cautleyan offshore mudstone in the Killey Bridge Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Encrinurus multisegmentatus in the database

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