Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
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 Ceratocephala according to B. D. E. Chatterton 1971
Sister taxa: Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina), Ceratocephala depauperata, Ceratocephala exigua, Ceratocephala goniata, Ceratocephala graffhami, Ceratocephala impedita, Ceratocephala laciniata, Ceratocephala laticapitata, Ceratocephala phalaenocephala, Ceratocephala rarispina, Ceratocephala triacantheis, Onchaspis confraga, Onychaspis laticapitata, Trapelocera bicuspis
Type specimen: ANU 17831, 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: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Chatterton Loc. A, Assemblage A, top of Receptaculites Lst, near Yass, NSW
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