Trilobita - Proetida - Brachymetopidae

Alternative combination: Loeipyge spinifer

Full reference: T. Kobayashi and T. Hamada. 1979. Permo-Carboniferous trilobites from Thailand and Malaysia. Geology and Palaeontology of Southeast Asia 20:1-21

Belongs to Brachymetopus according to R. M. Owens 2003

See also Kobayashi and Hamada 1979

Sister taxa: Brachymetopus (Acutimetopus), Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus), Brachymetopus (Conimetopus), Brachymetopus drevermanni, Brachymetopus edwardsi, Brachymetopus gaoanensis, Brachymetopus germanicus, Brachymetopus jayae, Brachymetopus maccoyi, Brachymetopus nodosus, Brachymetopus pseudometopina, Brachymetopus rhinorhachis, Brachymetopus spinosus, Brachymetopus strzeleckii, Brachymetopus woodlandi, Brachymetopus woodwardii

Type specimen: Its type locality is Tham Nam Maholan LE-Y, Changwat Loei, which is in an Asselian carbonate limestone in Thailand

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Tham Nam Maholan LE-Y, Changwat Loei

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