30415 - Rare 0.21 Inch Thoracocare minuta Cambrian Trilobite - Idaho USA
30415 - Rare 0.21 Inch Thoracocare minuta Cambrian Trilobite - Idaho USA 30415 - Rare 0.21 Inch Thoracocare minuta Cambrian Trilobite - Idaho USA 30415 - Rare 0.21 Inch Thoracocare minuta Cambrian Trilobite - Idaho USA

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30415 - Rare 0.21 Inch Thoracocare minuta Cambrian Trilobite - Idaho USA

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Species
† Thoracocare minuta (Robison and Campbell, 1974)
Age
Cambrian (~509 Million Years)
Location
Oneida Narrows, Idaho, USA
Formation
Spence Shale
Size
5.4 mm   •    in
Weight
0.57 g   •    oz
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Description
Thoracocare, Robison and Campbell 1974 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae

PaleoDB taxon number: 22046

Parent taxon: Oryctocephalidae according to A. R. Palmer and R. B. Halley 1979

See also Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Arthricocephalus, Changaspis, Cheiruroides, Cheiruroididae, Curvoryctocephalus, Duyunaspis, Euarthricocephalus, Feilongshania, Goldfieldia, Hunanocephalus, Kunshanaspis, Lancastria, Metabalangia, Metarthricocephalus, Opsiosoryctocephalus, Oryctocara, Oryctocarinae, Oryctocephalina, Oryctocephalinae, Oryctocephaloides, Oryctocephalops, Paleooryctocephalus, Parachangaspis, Protoryctocephalus, Sandoveria, Shabaella, Shergoldiella, Tonkinella

Subtaxa: Thoracocare idahoensis

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Environments: marine (1 collection), offshore shelf (1)

Age range: 516.0 to 513.0 Ma
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