30567 - Well Preserved 0.38 Inch Maurotarion christyi Silurian Trilobite - Indiana USA
30567 - Well Preserved 0.38 Inch Maurotarion christyi Silurian Trilobite - Indiana USA 30567 - Well Preserved 0.38 Inch Maurotarion christyi Silurian Trilobite - Indiana USA 30567 - Well Preserved 0.38 Inch Maurotarion christyi Silurian Trilobite - Indiana USA 30567 - Well Preserved 0.38 Inch Maurotarion christyi Silurian Trilobite - Indiana USA 30567 - Well Preserved 0.38 Inch Maurotarion christyi Silurian Trilobite - Indiana USA

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30567 - Well Preserved 0.38 Inch Maurotarion christyi Silurian Trilobite - Indiana USA

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Species
† Maurotarion christyi
Age
Silurian (430 million years)
Location
Shelby County, Indiana, U.S.A.
Formation
Waldron Shale Formation
Size
9.7 mm   •    in
Weight
183 g   •    oz
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Description
Maurotarion, Alberti 1969 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Aulacopleuridae
 
PaleoDB taxon number: 21249

Parent taxon: Aulacopleuridae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Aulacopleura, Aulacopleurinae, Coignouina, Cyphaspides, Dixiphopyge, Goodsiraspis, Namuropyge, Otarion, Otarioninae, Songkania

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Environments: marine (4 collections), open shallow subtidal (4), deep subtidal shelf (3), lagoonal (1)

Age range: 439.0 to 391.9 Ma

Distribution:

• Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma collection), Uzbekistan (2)

• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (9: Northwest Territories, Quebec), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Indiana)
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