Phacops araw McKellar and Chatterton 2009 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Phacopida - Phacopidae

Full reference: R. C. McKellar and B. D. E. Chatterton. 2009. Early and Middle Devonian Phacopidae (Trilobita) of southern Morocco. Palaeontographica Canadiana 28:1-109

Belongs to Phacops according to R. C. McKellar and B. D. E. Chatterton 2009

Sister taxa: Phacops (Boeckops), Phacops (Chasmops), Phacops (Chotecops), Phacops (Dalmania), Phacops (Monorakos), Phacops (Omegops), Phacops (Phacops), Phacops (Portlockia), Phacops (Prokops), Phacops (Pterygometopus), Phacops alifrons, Phacops breviceps, Phacops circumspectans, Phacops fragosus, Phacops granulatus, Phacops guranensis, Phacops iowensis, Phacops latifrons, Phacops maurusius, Phacops maximus, Phacops natlensis, Phacops ouarouroutensis, Phacops pantichionensis, Phacops papulatus, Phacops postaltaicus, Phacops pronini, Phacops spedeni, Phacops tafilaltensis, Phacops tamtertensis, Phacops transversalis, Phacops turco, Phacops zeregensis

Type specimen: UA 6904. Its type locality is 272 m., Section 1, Jbel Oufatene. Proetus/Phacops Couche, which is in an Eifelian carbonate limestone in the El Otfal Formation of Morocco.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at 272 m., Section 1, Jbel Oufatene. Proetus/Phacops Couche

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