Kimakaspis kovalevskyi Ghobadi Pour et al. 2011 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae

Full reference: M. Ghobadi Pour, L. M. E. McCobb, R. M. Owens and L. E. Popov. 2011. Late Ordovician trilobites from the Karagach Formation of the western Tarbagatai Range, Kazakhstan. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 101:161-187

Belongs to Kimakaspis according to M. Ghobadi Pour et al. 2011

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMW 2005.32G.240 (articulated exoskeleton, internal mould). Its type locality is 201. Karugach Section. East side of the Ayaguz River, about 7 km north of Akchii, which is in a Sandbian carbonate sandstone/siltstone in the Karagach Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Kazakhstan (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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