Hypodicranotus striatulus is an extinct, pelagic trilobite in the order Asaphida, of the family Remopleuridae. Its fossils are found in Middle Ordovician-aged marine strata in New York State, United States, and in Ontario, Canada.
| Hypodicranotus Temporal range: Middle Ordovician | |
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Asaphida |
| Family: | †Remopleurididae |
| Genus: | †Hypodicranotus Whittington, 1952 |
| Species: | †H. striatulus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Hypodicranotus striatulus (Walcott, 1875) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Remopleurides striatulus Walcott, 1875 | |
The dorsal exoskeleton of H. striatulus is very similar to the related genus, Remopleurides, but, H. striatulus has a comparatively enormous, forked hypostome.
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