Amphilichas shergoldi Edgecombe and Webby 2007 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Lichida - Lichidae

Full reference: G. D. Edgecombe and B. D. Webby. 2007. Ordovician trilobites with eastern Gondwanan affinities from central-west New South Wales and Tasmania. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 34:255-281

Belongs to Amphilichas according to G. D. Edgecombe and B. D. Webby 2007

Sister taxa: Amphilichas antiquarius, Amphilichas aspratilis, Amphilichas atavus, Amphilichas conradi, Amphilichas cucullus, Amphilichas dalecarlicus, Amphilichas declivis, Amphilichas effnensis, Amphilichas halli, Amphilichas holmi, Amphilichas laevis, Amphilichas latifrons, Amphilichas lineatus, Amphilichas minganensis, Amphilichas nasutus, Amphilichas panoplos, Amphilichas parvulus, Amphilichas periformis, Amphilichas planus, Amphilichas subdisjunctus, Amphilichas subpunctatus, Amphilichas wahlenbergi, Acrolichas prominulus, Kerakephalichas rhinoceros

Type specimen: AM F132454, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Currajong Park Homestead, which is in an Eastonian deep subtidal shelf siltstone in the Gunningbland Formation of Australia.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Currajong Park Homestead

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