Apatokephalus sarculum Fortey and Owens 1991 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Full reference: R. A. Fortey and R. M. Owens. 1991. A trilobite fauna from the highest Shineton Shales in Shropshire, and the correlation of the latest Tremadoc. Geological Magazine 128:437-464

Belongs to Apatokephalus according to R. A. Fortey and R. M. Owens 1991

Sister taxa: Apatokephalus canadensis, Apatokephalus dagmarae, Apatokephalus exiguus, Apatokephalus longifrons, Apatokephalus nyaicus, Apatokephalus rugosus, Apatokephalus serratus, Apatokephalus tibicen, Apatokephalus zhejianensis

Type specimen: NMW 86.27G.14, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Coundmoor Brook, which is in a Migneintian slope shale in the Shineton Shales Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Coundmoor Brook

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