Acropyge weggeni Hahn and Hahn 1981 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Full reference: G. Hahn and R. Hahn. 1981. Über Acropyge (Trilobitae; Ober-Perm). Senckenbergiana Lethaea 61:217-225

Belongs to Acropyge according to E. Mychko 2025

See also Hahn and Hahn 1981 and Lerosey-Aubril 2012

Sister taxa: Acropyge brevica, Acropyge encrinuroides, Acropyge multisegmenta

Type specimen: SMF 28225, a pygidium. Its type locality is Nur Valley, about 4 km NNE of Yush, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine limestone in the Nesen Formation of Iran.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Nur Valley, about 4 km NNE of Yush

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