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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Ptychopariida
Family: Elviniidae
Genus: Elvinia
Species: Elvinia roemeri
Author Citation (Shumard, 1861)
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Paleozoic
Period: Cambrian
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Furongian
McKay Group
not divided into named Formations
ML (Monograph Layer) of Chatterton & Ludvigsen, 1998
Collector: Donald Champagne
Acquired by: Field Collection
Length: 33 mm
Width: 28 mm
Clay Creek (tributary of Tanglefoot Creek)
Bull River Valley
British Columbia
Canada
Elvinia roemeri is an important zonal index species throughout Laurentia, but almost invariably it occurs as disarticulated sclerites. Complete specimens are rare except in the McKay Group. The species was originally described by Shumard (1861) as a species of Dikelocephalus.
References:
Chatterton, B.D.E., and Ludvigsen, R. 1998. Upper Steptoean (Upper Cambrian) trilobites of the McKay Group of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology. The Paleontological Society Memoir, 49: 1-43.
Chatterton, B.D.E. and Gibb, S. 2016. Furongian (Upper Cambrian) trilobites from the McKay Group, Bull River Valler, near Cranbrook, southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Paleontographica Canadiana 35: 1-275.
Shumard, B. F 1861. The primordial zone of Texas with descriptions of new fossils. American Journal of Science, s. 2, 32:213-221.
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