Bessazoon gibbae Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae

Full reference: B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen. 2004. Early Silurian trilobites of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 22

Belongs to Bessazoon according to B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GSC 122362, a pygidium. Its type locality is AN23, which is in an Aeronian open shallow subtidal shale in the Jupiter Formation of Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at AN23

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