Fallotaspis antecedens Geyer 2019 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Redlichiida - Fallotaspididae

Full reference: G. Geyer. 2019. The earliest known West Gondwanan trilobites from the Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco, with a revision of the Family Bigotinidae Hupe, 1953. Fossils and Strata 64:55-153

Belongs to Fallotaspis according to G. Geyer 2019

Sister taxa: Fallotaspis bondoni, Fallotaspis inexspectatus, Fallotaspis plana, Fallotaspis planospinosa, Fallotaspis tazemmourtensis, Fallotaspis typica

Type specimen: MMUW 2014C-115Ib, a cephalon/head (cranidium)

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Tazemmourt section T11 (Cambrian of Morocco)

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