Calliops brevipostica Cooper 1953 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae

Full reference: B. N. Cooper. 1953. Trilobites from the Lower Champlainian formations of the Appalachian Valley. Geological Society of America Memoir 55:1-69

Belongs to Calliops according to B. N. Cooper 1953

Sister taxa: Calliops annulatus, Calliops armatus, Calliops brevis, Calliops mesleri, Calliops troosti

Type specimen: USNM 116536, a pygidium

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Calliops brevipostica in the database

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