Artiopoda - Proetida - Proetidae
Full reference: S. Gibb and B. D. E. Chatterton. 2010. Gerastos (Order Proetida; Class Trilobita) from the Lower to Middle Devonian of the southern Moroccan Anti-Atlas region. Palaeontographica Canadiana 30:1-89
Belongs to Gerastos according to S. Gibb and B. D. E. Chatterton 2010
Sister taxa: Gerastos (Erbenites), Gerastos (Gerastos), Gerastos (Oehlertaspis), Gerastos ainrasifus, Gerastos aintawilus, Gerastos arcus, Gerastos batrachus, Gerastos confragosus, Gerastos cornix, Gerastos couvinensis, Gerastos cuvieri, Gerastos dhondti, Gerastos eifliensis, Gerastos emmetus, Gerastos fosterae, Gerastos fragosus, Gerastos galei, Gerastos granulatus, Gerastos granulosus, Gerastos hammii, Gerastos izius, Gerastos kermur, Gerastos kippingi, Gerastos lessensis, Gerastos lisanrasus, Gerastos lisyi, Gerastos luedenscheidensis, Gerastos malisjildus, Gerastos meiopsifius, Gerastos mellishae, Gerastos monksi, Gerastos prox, Gerastos raribus, Gerastos retroflexus, Gerastos rommersheimensis, Gerastos simus, Gerastos snellingsi, Gerastos suborbitatus, Gerastos taqus, Gerastos tuberculatus, Gerastos verrucosus
Type specimen: UA 13467. Its type locality is Gerastos horizon, Mrakib, which is in an Eifelian marine mudstone/shale in the Taboumakhlouf Formation of Morocco.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Gerastos horizon, Mrakib
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