Goniotelina plicolabeonus Young 1973 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Proetida - Bathyuridae

Full reference: G. E. Young. 1973. An Ordovician (Arenigian) trilobite faunule of great diversity from the Ibex area, western Utah. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 20(4):91-115

Belongs to Goniotelina according to G. E. Young 1973

Sister taxa: Acidiphorus brevispicatus, Acidiphorus brighti, Acidiphorus hesperia, Acidiphorus kindlei, Acidiphorus ligo, Acidiphorus lineotuberculatus, Acidiphorus moorei, Acidiphorus rostratus, Acidiphorus scorpionis, Acidiphorus spinifer, Acidiphorus wahwahensis, Acidiphorus whittingtoni, Acidiphorus williamsi, Goniotelus unicornis, Goniotelina broeggeri, Goniotelina ensifer, Goniotelina brevis

Type specimen: BYU 2121, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is H-20, which is in a Blackhillsian open shallow subtidal grainstone in the Fillmore Formation of Utah.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at H-20

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