Pseudoptyocephalus spinosus Legg 1976 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Asaphida - Asaphidae

Full reference: D. P. Legg. 1976. Ordovician trilobites and graptolites from the Canning Basin, western Australia. Geologica et Palaeontologica 10:1-58

Belongs to Pseudoptyocephalus according to D. P. Legg 1976

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UWA 71391, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Core 3, Parda No. 1, Canning Basin, which is in a Darriwilian carbonate shale/limestone in the Goldwyer Formation of Australia.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Core 3, Parda No. 1, Canning Basin

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