Trilobita - Proetida - Otarionidae
Alternative combinations: Cyphaspis dabrown, Otarion (Otarion) dabrowni
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 Cyphaspis according to J. M. Adrain and B. D. E. Chatterton 1996
See also Chatterton 1971
Sister taxa: Cyphaspis advena, Cyphaspis agayuara, Cyphaspis akkae, Cyphaspis barrandei, Cyphaspis bluhmi, Cyphaspis boninoi, Cyphaspis brevimarginatus, Cyphaspis ceratophthalmoides, Cyphaspis ceratophthalmus, Cyphaspis convexum, Cyphaspis eberhardiei, Cyphaspis eximia, Cyphaspis foumzguidensis, Cyphaspis globosus, Cyphaspis hamidi, Cyphaspis heisingi, Cyphaspis heissae, Cyphaspis hoepfneri, Cyphaspis hydrocephala, Cyphaspis ihmadii, Cyphaspis juergenhollandi, Cyphaspis khraidensis, Cyphaspis kippingi, Cyphaspis lacrimara, Cyphaspis lerougei, Cyphaspis maharchensis, Cyphaspis rommersheimensis, Cyphaspis slocomi, Cyphaspis smeenki, Cyphaspis tadachachtensis, Cyphaspis unguloides, Cyphaspis walteri
Type specimen: ANU 17838, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Chatterton Loc. A, near Yass, NSW, which is in an Emsian marine lime mudstone/wackestone in the Taemas Formation of Australia.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Chatterton Loc. A, near Yass, NSW
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