Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Full reference: T. Kobayashi and T. Hamada. 1985. Additional Silurian trilobites to the Yokokura-Yama fauna from Shikoku, Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 139:206-217
Belongs to Encrinurus according to T. Kobayashi and T. Hamada 1985
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 multisegmentatus, Encrinurus niquivilensis, Encrinurus nodai, Encrinurus nodosarius, Encrinurus octocostatus, Encrinurus octonarius, Encrinurus priscus, Encrinurus punctatus, Encrinurus reflexus, Encrinurus rosensteinae, Encrinurus spicatus, Encrinurus squarrosus, Encrinurus stateratus, Encrinurus stenorhachis, Encrinurus striatus, Encrinurus subtrigonalis, Encrinurus tosensis, Encrinurus trispinosus, Encrinurus yokokurensis
Type specimen: KGS 3629, a pygidium. Its type locality is new trilobite collection, Gomi Quarry, which is in a Ludlow reef, buildup or bioherm reef rocks/shale in the Fukata Formation of Japan.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at new trilobite collection, Gomi Quarry
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