Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae

Full reference: P. J. Lespérance and P. M. Sheehan. 1987. Trilobites et Brachiopodes ashgilliens (Ordovicien supérieur) de l'"Assise" de Fosse, Bande de Sambre-Meuse (Belgique). Bulletin-Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la terre 57:91-123

Parent taxon: Phacopidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002

See also Lespérance and Sheehan 1987 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acernaspis, Acuticryphops, Adastocephalum, Afrops, Altaesajania, Ananaspis, Babinops, Boeckops, Burtonops, Chotecops, Denckmannites, Dianops, Dienstina, Drotops, Ductina, Echinophacopinae, Eldredgeops, Enigmapyge, Eocryphops, Eophacops, Illaenula, Inexpectatops, Kainops, Liolophops, Lochkovella, Nyterops, Paciphacops, Phacopidella, Phacopinae, Phacops, Plagiolaria, Pulvinocephalus, Rabienops, Reedops, Rhinophacops, Rhinoreedops, Signatops, Struveaspis, Teichertops, Trifoliops, Trimerocephalus, Zaplaops

Subtaxa: Sambremeusaspis fossesensis

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Type: Sambremeusaspis fossesensis

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sous-Assise de Faulx-les-Tombes (Ordovician of Belgium)

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