Kathwaia girtyi Tumanskaya 1935 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Alternative combination: Proetus girtyi

Full reference: O. G. Tumanskaya. 1935. The Permo-Carboniferous trilobites of the Crimea. The Permo-Carboniferous Beds of the Crimea 2:1-63

Belongs to Kathwaia according to R. E. Grant 1966

See also Tumanskaya 1935

Sister taxon: Kathwaia capitorosa

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kichkhi-Burnu Block, Marta River, Crimea (Tumanskaya coll), which is in a Roadian carbonate limestone in the Marta Formation of Ukraine

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Kichkhi-Burnu Block, Marta River, Crimea (Tumanskaya coll)

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