Acastava lerougei van Viersen 2013 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Acastidae

Full reference: A. P. van Viersen. 2013. Latest Early to early Middle Devonian acastid trilobites from the eastern part of the Dinant Synclinorium, Belgium (Rhenohercynian Zone). Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 44:1-10

Belongs to Acastava according to A. P. van Viersen 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHMM 2011006A, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Disused GrimbiƩmont quarry , which is in an Emsian marine siltstone in the Hierges-Hampteau Formation of Belgium.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Disused GrimbiƩmont quarry

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