Kettneraspis copelandi Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae

Full reference: B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen. 2004. Early Silurian trilobites of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 22

Belongs to Kettneraspis according to B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen 2004

Sister taxa: Kettneraspis angelini, Kettneraspis aracana, Kettneraspis arkansana, Kettneraspis bayarti, Kettneraspis callicera, Kettneraspis coalescens, Kettneraspis derelicta, Kettneraspis elliptica, Kettneraspis pigra, Kettneraspis prescheri, Kettneraspis ramskoeldi, Kettneraspis reetae, Kettneraspis wrightae

Type specimen: GSC 122225, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is AN44, which is in an Aeronian/Telychian open shallow subtidal lime mudstone/mudstone in the Jupiter Formation of Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at AN44

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