30534 - Rare 1.21 Inch Proceratopyge sp Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Canada
30534 - Rare 1.21 Inch Proceratopyge sp Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Canada 30534 - Rare 1.21 Inch Proceratopyge sp Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Canada 30534 - Rare 1.21 Inch Proceratopyge sp Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Canada 30534 - Rare 1.21 Inch Proceratopyge sp Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Canada 30534 - Rare 1.21 Inch Proceratopyge sp Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Canada

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30534 - Rare 1.21 Inch Proceratopyge sp Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Canada

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Species
† Proceratopyge (Wallerius, 1895)
Age
Upper Cambrian (~497 Million Years)
Location
Canbrook East Kootenays, British Columbia, Canada
Formation
McKay Group
Size
30.7 mm   •    in
Weight
61 g   •    oz
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Description
Proceratopyge, Wallerius 1895 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
 
PaleoDB taxon number: 20136

Parent taxon: Ceratopygidae according to J.-S. Bao and J.B. Jago 2000

See also Harrington and Leanza 1957, Henningsmoen 1958, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Aplotaspis, Asiocephalus, Ceratopyge, Cermatops, Charchaqia, Diceratopyge, Dichelepyge, Haniwoides, Hedinaspis, Hunanopyge, Hysterolenus, Kaltykelina, Macropyge, Nannopeltis, Onychopyge, Pseudohysterolenus, Pseudoyuepingia, Tamdaspis, Tropidopyge, Yuepingia, Yuepingioides

Subtaxa: Proceratopyge (Lopnorites), Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge), Proceratopyge conifrons, Proceratopyge cylindrica, Proceratopyge distensa, Proceratopyge fenghwangensis, Proceratopyge fuyangensis, Proceratopyge incondita, Proceratopyge longa, Proceratopyge mirabilis, Proceratopyge nathorsti, Proceratopyge promisca, Proceratopyge protracta, Proceratopyge tenuita, Proceratopyge truncata, Proceratopyge waergangensis, Proceratopyge zhejiangensis

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Type: Proceratopyge conifrons

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Environments: slope (17 collections), offshore (3), carbonate (1), deep subtidal (1), basinal (siliciclastic) (1), submarine fan (1), marine (1), deep subtidal shelf (1), transition zone/lower shoreface (1)

Age range: 501.0 to 478.6 Ma

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Argentina (2 collections)

• Ayusokkanian of Kazakhstan (6)

• Cambrian to Ordovician of Australia (2)

• Cambrian of Australia (2), Canada (2: Yukon), China (98), France (1), Kazakhstan (49), the Russian Federation (10), South Korea (36)
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