Artiopoda - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Full reference: J. Gutierrez-Marco, S. Pereira, D. Garcia-Bellido and I. Rabano. 2022. Ordovician trilobites from the Tafilalt Lagerstätte: new data and reappraisal of the Bou Nemrou assemblage. The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco 97-137
Belongs to Placoparia according to J. Gutierrez-Marco et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Placoparia (Coplacoparia), Placoparia (Placoparia), Placoparia borni, Placoparia cambriensis
Type specimen: MGM-6732X, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bou Nemrou quarry, which is in a Sandbian transition zone/lower shoreface sandstone/mudstone in the Izegguirene Formation of Morocco.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Bou Nemrou quarry
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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