Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Alternative combinations: Proetus carintiacus, Typhloproetus carintiacus
Full reference: F. Drevermann. 1901. Die fauna der oberdevonischen Tuffbreccie von Langenaubach bie Haiger. Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt 1900:99-207
Belongs to Helioproetus according to R. Feist et al. 2000
See also Feist 1992, Feist and McNamara 2013 and Richter and Richter 1926
Sister taxa: Helioproetus costifusus, Helioproetus ebersdorfensis, Helioproetus pusillus, Helioproetus subcarintiacus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Plöckenhauses bei Kötschach, which is in a Famennian carbonate limestone in the Pal Grande Formation of Austria
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Austria (8 collections), Germany (2)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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