Gondwanaspis prisca Feist and McNamara 2007 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae

Full reference: R. Feist and K. J. McNamara. 2007. Biodiversity, distribution and patterns of extinction of the last odontopleuroid trilobites during the Devonian (Givetian, Frasnian). Geological Magazine 144(5):777-796

Belongs to Gondwanaspis according to R. Feist and K. J. McNamara 2007

Sister taxa: Gondwanaspis dracula, Gondwanaspis harborti, Gondwanaspis mrirtensis, Gondwanaspis spinosa

Type specimen: UMC-IP 554, a cephalon/head. Its type locality is CPS-E 58. Puech de la Suque, which is in a Frasnian marine limestone in the Coumiac Formation of France.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at CPS-E 58. Puech de la Suque

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