Gogoella wadei Legg 1976 (trilobite)

Artiopoda - Phacopida - Pliomeridae

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

Belongs to Gogoella according to D. P. Legg 1976

Sister taxon: Gogoella brevis

Type specimen: UWA 71202, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is section RM 10, Prices Creek Area, Emanuel Creek, Canning Basin, which is in an Arenig marine horizon in the Emanuel Formation of Australia.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at section RM 10, Prices Creek Area, Emanuel Creek, Canning Basin

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