Artiopoda - Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Alternative combination: Cordania pulchra
Full reference: G. A. Cooper and P. E. Cloud. 1938. New Devonian fossils from Calhoun County, Illinois. Journal of Paleontology 12(5):444-460
Belongs to Mystrocephala according to W. Hickerson 1992
See also Cooper and Cloud 1938 and Lemke 2020
Sister taxon: Mystrocephala stummi
Type specimen: USNM 95198a. Its type locality is Salt Spring Hollow, about two miles north of the hollow south of Kritesville, which is in a Givetian carbonate limestone in the Little Cedar Formation of Illinois.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of United States (2: Illinois, Iowa collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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