†Pterocoryphe progrediens Feist and Clarkson 1989 (trilobite)
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Trilobita - Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Full reference: R. Feist and E. N. K. Clarkson. 1989. Environmentaly controlled phyletic evolution, blindness and extinction in Late Devonian tropidocoryphine trilobites. Lethaia 22:359-373
Belongs to Pterocoryphe according to R. Feist and E. N. K. Clarkson 1989
Sister taxa: Pterocoryphe languedociana, Pterocoryphe larouquettensis, Pterocoryphe platymarginata
Type specimen: USTM 19, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is La Serre A bed 43, which is in a Frasnian carbonate limestone in the Serre Formation of France.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at La Serre A bed 43
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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