Trilobita - Corynexochida - Styginidae
Full reference: B. D. E. Chatterton. 1971. Taxonomy and ontogeny of Siluro-Devonian trilobites from near Yass, New South Wales. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 137(1-3):1-108
Belongs to Scutellum according to B. D. E. Chatterton 1971
Sister taxa: Scutellum barrandii, Scutellum decipulum, Scutellum droseron, Scutellum protrusifrons, Bronteus (Thysanopeltis), Bronteus (Dicranactis)
Type specimen: ANU 17818, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Chatterton Loc. A, Assemblage A, top of Receptaculites Lst, near Yass, NSW, which is in an Emsian marine lime mudstone/grainstone in the Taemas Formation of Australia.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Chatterton Loc. A, Assemblage A, top of Receptaculites Lst, near Yass, NSW
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