Artiopoda - Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Alternative combination: Brachymetopus maccoyi woodwardii
Full reference: G. F. Whidborne. 1896. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume III - Part I. The fauna of the Marwood and Pilton beds. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 50:1-112
Belongs to Brachymetopus according to R. M. Owens 1984
See also Whidborne 1896
Sister taxa: Brachymetopus (Acutimetopus), Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus), Brachymetopus (Conimetopus), Brachymetopus drevermanni, Brachymetopus edwardsi, Brachymetopus germanicus, Brachymetopus jayae, Brachymetopus maccoyi, Brachymetopus nodosus, Brachymetopus pseudometopina, Brachymetopus rhinorhachis, Brachymetopus spiniferus, Brachymetopus spinosus, Brachymetopus strzeleckii, Brachymetopus woodlandi
Type specimen: SM H418, a cephalon/head. Its type locality is Lane between Heanton Punchardon and Wrafton, which is in a Hastarian offshore shale/limestone in the Pilton Shales Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (3 collections)
• Devonian of China (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.