Thebanaspis thebana Lütke 1990 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Proetida - Proetidae

Full reference: F. Lütke. 1990. Contributions to a phylogenetical classification of the subfamily Proetinae Salter, 1864 (Trilobita). Senckenbergiana lethaea 71:1-83

Belongs to Thebanaspis according to F. Lütke 1990

Sister taxa: Thebanaspis arsenaulti, Thebanaspis asaphoides, Thebanaspis determinatus, Thebanaspis jefferyi

Type specimen: USNM 78745a. Its type locality is Near Thebes, which is in a Rhuddanian coastal siltstone in the Bowling Green Formation of Illinois.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Near Thebes

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