Digonus Guerich 1909 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Phacopida - Homalonotidae

Alternative spellings: Burmeisteria (Digonus), Homalonotus (Digonus)

Parent taxon: Homalonotinae according to V. Bault et al. 2021

See also Berry and Boucot 1973, Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Thomas 1977

Sister taxa: Brongniartella, Burmeisteria, Dipleura, Homalonotus, Parahomalonotus, Platycoryphe, Trimerus, Wenndorfia

Subtaxa: Burmeisteria (Digonus) noticus Digonus comes Digonus roemeri Digonus zemmourensis

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Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Devonian of Algeria (4 collections), Antarctica (4), Bolivia (1), Czechia (1), Ghana (1), Luxembourg (3), Morocco (4), New Zealand (2), Poland (2), South Africa (4), Spain (2), Ukraine (1)

• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1)

Total: 30 collections including 33 occurrences

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