Artiopoda - Asaphida - Asaphidae

Alternative combination: Asaphus (Isotelus) gigas

Belongs to Asaphus according to Nicholson and Etheridge 1880

See also Bigsby 1868 and Jell and Adrain 2002

Sister taxa: Asaphus (Ampyx), Asaphus (Asaphus), Asaphus (Neoasaphus), Asaphus (Onchometopus), Asaphus (Platypeltis), Asaphus (Subasaphus), Asaphus auriculatus, Asaphus broeggeri, Asaphus caribouensis, Asaphus caudatus, Asaphus curiosa, Asaphus delfinus, Asaphus expansus, Asaphus heckeri, Asaphus homfrayi, Asaphus knyrkoi, Asaphus striatus

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Inmost Island, Kinwow Bay, Lake Winnepeg (Ordovician of Manitoba)

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