Bathyurus (Raymondites) clochensis Swisher et al. 2015 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae

Full reference: R. E. Swisher, S. R. Westrop, and L. Amati. 2015. The Upper Ordovician trilobite Raymondites Sinclair, 1944 in North America. Journal of Paleontology 89(1):110-134

Belongs to Bathyurus (Raymondites) according to R. E. Swisher et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Bathyurus (Raymondites) ingalli, Bathyurus (Raymondites) longispinus, Bathyurus (Raymondites) missouriensis, Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger

Type specimen: ROM 61466, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is road cut on HW 68, Cloche Island, approximately 9 km south of Birch Island, which is in a Turinian carbonate mudstone/wackestone in the Cloche Island Formation of Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at road cut on HW 68, Cloche Island, approximately 9 km south of Birch Island

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