Artiopoda - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Full reference: M. Ghobadi Pour. 2022. Trilobites of trinucleid, raphiophorid and cyclopygid associations from the Ordovician (Darriwilian – early Katian) of the west Balkhash region and Betpak-Dala, Central Kazakhstan. Papers in Palaeontology
Belongs to Kongqiaoheia according to M. Ghobadi Pour 2022
Sister taxa: Nanshanaspis levis, Nanshanaspis rotundata, Nanshanaspis tarimuensis, Nanshanaspis unica
Type specimen: NMW 2008.34G.196, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Locality F-512a, which is in a Sandbian marine siltstone in the Kopkurgan Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Locality F-512a
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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