Gerastos cornix van Viersen 2021 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae

Full reference: A. P. van Viersen. 2021. Type and other species of Gerastos and allied genera (Trilobita, Proetinae) from the Siluro-Devonian. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 299(2):185-217

Belongs to Gerastos according to A. P. van Viersen 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHMM 2020 004, a cephalon/head. Its type locality is B-041, Boutonville, which is in an Eifelian marine limestone in the Jemelle Formation of Belgium.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at B-041, Boutonville

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