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Article: A new pelagic trilobite from the Ordovician of Spitsbergen, Ireland, and Utah

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 17
Part: 1
Publication Date: June 1974
Page(s): 111 – 124
Author(s): R. A. Fortey
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FORTEY, R. A. 1974. A new pelagic trilobite from the Ordovician of Spitsbergen, Ireland, and Utah. Palaeontology, 17, 1, 111–124.

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Abstract

Opipeuter inconnivus gen. et sp. nov. is described. It is included with Cremastoglottus Whittard in a new family, the Opipeuteridae, which is probably closest to the Remopleurididae. It is also possible that Opipeuter is related to the enigmatic trilobite Bohemilla Barrande. The functional morphology of Opipeuter indicates a pelagic mode of life.
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