Trilobita - Proetida - Otarionidae
Full reference: A.P. Van Viersen and D. Holland. 2016. Morphological trends and new species of Cyphaspis (Trilobita, Otarioninae) in the Devonian of Morocco, Turkey, Germany and Belgium. Geologica Belgica 19:251-271
Belongs to Cyphaspis according to A.P. Van Viersen and D. Holland 2016
Sister taxa: Cyphaspis advena, Cyphaspis agayuara, Cyphaspis akkae, Cyphaspis barrandei, Cyphaspis bluhmi, Cyphaspis boninoi, Cyphaspis brevimarginatus, Cyphaspis ceratophthalmoides, Cyphaspis ceratophthalmus, Cyphaspis convexum, Cyphaspis dabrowni, Cyphaspis eberhardiei, Cyphaspis eximia, Cyphaspis foumzguidensis, Cyphaspis globosus, Cyphaspis hamidi, Cyphaspis heisingi, Cyphaspis heissae, Cyphaspis hoepfneri, Cyphaspis hydrocephala, Cyphaspis ihmadii, Cyphaspis juergenhollandi, Cyphaspis khraidensis, Cyphaspis kippingi, Cyphaspis lacrimara, Cyphaspis maharchensis, Cyphaspis rommersheimensis, Cyphaspis slocomi, Cyphaspis smeenki, Cyphaspis tadachachtensis, Cyphaspis unguloides, Cyphaspis walteri
Type specimen: IRSNB a13014, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Tadachacht locality, Khebchia Fm., which is in an Emsian carbonate horizon in the Khebchia Formation of Morocco.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Tadachacht locality, Khebchia Fm.
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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