Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Full reference: P. J. Lespérance and D. Desbiens. 1995. Selected Ordovician trilobites from the Lake St. John District of Quebec and their bearing on systematics. Paleontological Society Memoir 42:1-19
Parent taxon: Encrinurinae according to D. K. Moss and S. R. Westrop 2014
See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Lespérance and Desbiens 1995 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Billevittia, Brianurus, Coronocephalus, Cromus, Encrinuraspis, Encrinuroides, Encrinurus, Erratencrinurus, Fragiscutum, Frammia, Johntempleia, Kailia, Physemataspis, Senticucullus, Walencrinuroides
Subtaxa: Frencrinuroides capitonis Frencrinuroides gibber
Type: Encrinuroides capitonis
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Newfoundland collection), United States (1: Oklahoma)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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