Wenndorfia bostoviensis Tomczykowa 1975 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae

Alternative combination: Digonus bostoviensis

Full reference: E. Tomczykowa. 1975. The trilobite subfamily Homalonotinae from the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 20(1):3-46

Belongs to Wenndorfia according to C. Caprichoso 2019

See also Tomczykowa 1975

Sister taxa: Wenndorfia angusticostatus, Wenndorfia miloni, Wenndorfia mutabilis

Type specimen: IG. 1321.11.44, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Upper Bostovian fauna at Bostow section, which is in a Helderbergian/Pragian marine siltstone/sandstone in the Bostów Formation of Poland.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Upper Bostovian fauna at Bostow section

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