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Austerops smoothops

Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae

Taxonomy
Phacops smoothops was named by Chatterton et al. (2006). Its type specimen is UA 13306, an exoskeleton (enrolled), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Zguilma section, Timrhanrhart Fm, Lower Bed, ZGEE1 , which is in an Emsian shallow subtidal mudstone in the Timrhanrhart Formation of Morocco.

It was recombined as Austerops smoothops by McKellar and Chatterton (2009).