Pagetides fragum Öpik 1975 (artiopod)

Artiopoda - Agnostida - Eodiscidae

Alternative combination: Discomesites fragum

Full reference: A. A. Öpik. 1975. Cymbric Vale fauna of New South Wales and Early Cambrian biostratigraphy. Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australia 159:1-78

Belongs to Pagetides according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002

See also Öpik 1975

Sister taxa: Pagetides antarcticus, Pagetides elegans, Pagetides spinulus

Type specimen: CPC 13177, a cephalon/head

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Site A. 7 km west of Mt. Wright (Cambrian of Australia)

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