Dechenelloides peoui Engel and Morris 1996 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Full reference: B. A. Engel and N. Morris. 1996. Trilobites from the Lower Carboniferous of eastern Australia. Geologica et Palaeontologica 30:119-145

Belongs to Dechenelloides according to B. A. Engel and N. Morris 1996

Sister taxon: Dechenelloides angustigenatus

Type specimen: AMF 96983, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is NUL 861, Berrico District, which is in a Visean foreshore sandstone in the Berrico Creek Formation of Australia.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at NUL 861, Berrico District

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