Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) bassei Chatterton and Gibb 2010 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Lichida - Lichidae

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 Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) according to B. D. E. Chatterton and S. Gibb 2010

Sister taxa: Belenopyge balliviani, Belenopyge contusa, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) pristina, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) parapleura, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) australiformis, Lobopyge (Lobopyge), Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) australis, Lobopyge niobe, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) consanguinea, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) brevis, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) decheni, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) sinuata, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) campbelli, Lobopyge permaginata, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) parvulus, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) edgecombei, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) docekali, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) uralensis, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) brankiensis, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) pragensis, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) hirsuta, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) branikensis

Type specimen: UA 13653, 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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