Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Alternative spelling: Plaesiocomia
Parent taxon: Colpocoryphinae according to C. R. Congreve and B. S. Lieberman 2008
See also Gutiérrez-Marco and Babin 1999, Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Thomas 1977
Sister taxon: Colpocoryphe
Subtaxa: Plaesiacomia hesselinki Plaesiacomia hughesi Plaesiacomia oehlerti Plaesiacomia rara Plaesiacomia vacuvertis
Type: Plaesiacomia rara
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Dobrotivian of France (4 collections), Morocco (1), Portugal (6), Spain (7)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Ordovician of France (7), Morocco (5), Portugal (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 37 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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