Bowmania lassieae Adrain and Westrop 2004 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Harpetida - Heterocaryonidae

Full reference: J. M. Adrain and S. R. Westrop. 2004. A Late Cambrian (Sunwaptan) Silicified Trilobite Fauna from Nevada. Bulletins of American Paleontology 365:5-55

Belongs to Bowmania according to J. M. Adrain and S. R. Westrop 2004

Sister taxon: Bowmania americana

Type specimen: SUI 99234, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is silicified fauna, Barton Canyon, which is in a Sunwaptan deep subtidal grainstone in the Windfall Formation of Nevada.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at silicified fauna, Barton Canyon

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