Reedops platilegnotor Alberti 1970 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae

Alternative combination: Phacops (Reedops) platilegnotor

Full reference: G. K. B. Alberti. 1970. Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter- und Mitteldevons. II. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 525:1-233

Belongs to Reedops according to U. Lemke 2020

See also Alberti 1970

Sister taxa: Reedops albertii, Reedops bronni, Reedops cephalotes, Reedops decorus, Reedops intermedius, Reedops limespragensis, Reedops maurulus, Reedops pembertoni, Reedops prospicens, Reedops sternbergi, Reedops struveianus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Limestone Horizons of Megrane Shale, Jebel Megrane, Hercynian Massif, Morocco, which is in a Pragian marine shale/limestone in the Megrane Shale Formation of Morocco

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Limestone Horizons of Megrane Shale, Jebel Megrane, Hercynian Massif, Morocco

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