Artiopoda - Proetida - Proetidae
Alternative combination: Proetus simus
Full reference: P. D. Lane. 1984. Silurian trilobites from Hall Land and Nyeboe Land, western Greenland. Rapport, Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 121:53-75
Belongs to Gerastos according to J. M. Adrain 1997
See also Lane 1984
Sister taxa: Gerastos (Erbenites), Gerastos (Gerastos), Gerastos (Oehlertaspis), Gerastos ainrasifus, Gerastos aintawilus, Gerastos arcus, Gerastos batrachus, Gerastos confragosus, Gerastos cornix, Gerastos couvinensis, Gerastos cuvieri, Gerastos dhondti, Gerastos discombobulatus, Gerastos eifliensis, Gerastos emmetus, Gerastos fosterae, Gerastos fragosus, Gerastos galei, Gerastos granulatus, Gerastos granulosus, Gerastos hammii, Gerastos izius, Gerastos kermur, Gerastos kippingi, Gerastos lessensis, Gerastos lisanrasus, Gerastos lisyi, Gerastos luedenscheidensis, Gerastos malisjildus, Gerastos meiopsifius, Gerastos mellishae, Gerastos monksi, Gerastos prox, Gerastos raribus, Gerastos retroflexus, Gerastos rommersheimensis, Gerastos snellingsi, Gerastos suborbitatus, Gerastos taqus, Gerastos tuberculatus, Gerastos verrucosus
Type specimen: MGUH 16.308, a cephalon/head. Its type locality is unite 6D, Kayser Bjerg, which is in a Wenlock reef, buildup or bioherm reef rocks/lime mudstone in Greenland.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Nunavut collections), Greenland (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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