Trilobita - Olenida - Olenidae

Full reference: J. D. Loch, J. H. Stitt, and J. R. Derby. 1993. Cambrian-Ordovician boundary interval extinctions: Implications of revised trilobite and brachiopod data from Mount Wilson, Alberta, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 67(4):497-517

Parent taxon: Oleninae according to J. D. Loch et al. 1993

See also Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Plesioparabolina, Porterfieldia, Triarthrus, Bienvillia

Subtaxa: Rampartaspis dissimulosulcus

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Type: Rampartaspis dissimulosulcus

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at GSC loc. 69775 (Ordovician of Alberta)

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