Cronierella expansa Feist and Klapper 2022 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Phacopida - Phacopidae

Full reference: R. Feist and G. Klapper. 2022. Phacopid trilobites in post-Taghanic Givetian through Frasnian cephalopod limestones, Montagne Noire (France) and related areas (Thuringia, Morocco). Bulletin of Geosciences 97(1):1-32

Belongs to Cronierella according to R. Feist and G. Klapper 2022

Sister taxa: Cronierella postera, Cronierella zofiae

Type specimen: UM-IP 876. Its type locality is A 129. La Serre trenches A, A’ and C, which is in a Frasnian marine limestone in the Serre Formation of France.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at A 129. La Serre trenches A, A’ and C

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