Walliserops lindoei Chatterton and Gibb 2010 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Acastidae

Full reference: B. D. E. Chatterton and S. Gibb. 2010. Latest Early to Early Middle Devonian trilobites from he Erbenochile bed, Jbel Issoumour, southeastern Morocco. Journal of Paleontology 84(6):1188-1205

Belongs to Walliserops according to B. D. E. Chatterton and S. Gibb 2010

Sister taxa: Walliserops hammii, Walliserops tridens, Walliserops trifurcatus

Type specimen: UA 13644, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Erbenochile bed, which is in an Emsian/Eifelian deep subtidal wackestone in the El Otfal Formation of Morocco.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Erbenochile bed

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