Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Alternative spelling: Homalonotus (Brongniartella)
Synonyms: Pamirotellus Balashova 1968, Portaginus Lesperance 1968
Parent taxon: Homalonotinae according to C. R. Congreve and B. S. Lieberman 2008
See also Gagnier et al. 1996, Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Thomas 1977
Sister taxa: Burmeisteria, Digonus, Dipleura, Homalonotus, Parahomalonotus, Platycoryphe, Trimerus, Wenndorfia
Subtaxa: Brongniartella minor Brongniartella platynota Brongniartella robusta
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Australia (1 collection), Jordan (4), the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Bolivia (2), Canada (8: Quebec, Québec), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (1), Latvia (1), Morocco (5), Poland (1), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (28), United States (2: Nevada)
Total: 64 collections including 75 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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