Babinops planiventer Feist and Becker 1997 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Phacopida - Phacopidae

Full reference: R. Feist and T. Becker. 1997. Discovery of Famennian trilobites in Australia (Late Devonian, Canning Basin, NW Australia). in P. R. Racheboeuf and M. Gayet, eds., Actualites paleontologiques (Geobios Mem. Spec. 20), Universite Claude-Bernard, Lyon 231-242

Belongs to Babinops according to R. Feist and T. Becker 1997

Sister taxon: Babinops minor

Type specimen: GSWA- F49810, a cephalon/head. Its type locality is Beds 2C - 3D. Ant Hill, near Bob's Bore in Virgin Hills, which is in a Famennian/Famennian reef, buildup or bioherm sandstone in the Virgin Hills Formation of Australia.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Beds 2C - 3D. Ant Hill, near Bob's Bore in Virgin Hills

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