Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae

Full reference: H. B. Whittington and W.R., I.I. Evitt. 1953. Silicified Middled Ordovician trilobites. Geological Society of America Memoir 59:1-139

Belongs to Ceraurinella according to H. B. Whittington and W.R., II Evitt 1953

Sister taxa: Ceraurinella arctica, Ceraurinella brevispina, Ceraurinella kingstoni, Ceraurinella latipyga, Ceraurinella longispina, Ceraurinella media, Ceraurinella nahanniensis, Ceraurinella necra, Ceraurinella polydorus, Ceraurinella pompilia, Ceraurinella seriata, Ceraurinella typa, Ceraurinella zhoui

Type specimen: USNM 116545. Its type locality is Loc. 1. Tumbling Run, 2 miles southwest of Strasburg, which is in a Blackriveran carbonate limestone in the Lincolnshire Limestone Formation of Virginia.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore