Dohmiella acanthonota Van Viersen and Prescher 2010 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Proetida - Proetidae

Full reference: A. P. Van Viersen and H. Prescher. 2010. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of some proetid trilobites in the Middle Devonian of the Ardennes and Eifel (Rhenohercynian Zone). Bulletin de l’Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 80:5-45

Belongs to Dohmiella according to A. P. Van Viersen and H. Prescher 2010

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

Type specimen: IRSNB a12766, a pygidium. Its type locality is Gerolstein02, which is in an Eifelian marine marl in the Ahrdorf Formation of Germany.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Gerolstein02

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