Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae

Alternative combination: Trimerocephaloides linguiformis

Full reference: R. Feist, K. J. McNamara, C. Cronier and R. Lerosey-Aubril. 2009. Patterns of extinction and recovery of phacopid trilobites during the Frasnian–Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction event, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Geological Magazine 146(1):12-33

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

See also Feist et al. 2009

Sister taxa: Occitanella hexagonalis, Occitanella postinflexa

Type specimen: WAM 07.281, a pygidium. Its type locality is Locality 01. Windy Knolls, Bugle Gap, 1 km south of Waggon Pass, which is in a Frasnian perireef or subreef limestone in the Virgin Hills Formation of Australia.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Locality 01. Windy Knolls, Bugle Gap, 1 km south of Waggon Pass

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