Caborcella trifossatus Mason 1935 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae

Alternative combination: Acrocephalites trifossatus

Full reference: J. F. Mason. 1935. Fauna of the Cambrian Cadiz Formation, Marble Mountains, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 34(2):97-120

Belongs to Caborcella according to C. Lochman 1948

See also Mason 1935

Sister taxa: Caborcella arrojosensis, Caborcella collaris, Caborcella pseudaulax, Caborcella reducta

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Marble Mountains, near Cadiz (coll. Bradley and Mason 1934) (Cambrian of California)

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