Dohmiella prescheri van Viersen 2006 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Proetida - Proetidae

Full reference: A. P. van Viersen. 2006. Dohmiella Lütke 1990 (Trilobita) a valid proetid genus,with two new species from Belgium and Germany. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 86(2):229-241

Belongs to Dohmiella according to A. P. van Viersen 2006

Sister taxa: Dohmiella acanthonota, Dohmiella chamaeleo, Dohmiella dewildei, Dohmiella dohmi, Dohmiella moravica, Dohmiella peetszi, Dohmiella pooka, Dohmiella stumporum, Dohmiella tenuiornata

Type specimen: SMF 58594, an exoskeleton (thorax and pygidium). Its type locality is Kirberg Hill, Hillesheim Syncline, which is in an Eifelian marine marl in the Nohn Formation of Germany.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Kirberg Hill, Hillesheim Syncline

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