Dohmiella stumporum Van Viersen and Prescher 2008 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae

Full reference: A. P. Van Viersen and H. Prescher. 2008. Devonian Proetidae (Trilobita) from the Ardennes Massif (Belgium, N France) and the Eifel Hills (W Germany). Bulletin de l’Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 78:9-29

Belongs to Dohmiella according to A. P. Van Viersen and H. Prescher 2008

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

Type specimen: IRSNB a12593, a pygidium. Its type locality is Lissingen, which is in an Eifelian marine horizon in the Ahrdorf Formation of Germany.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Lissingen

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