All-in-one 22023 - Top Well Prepared "flying" 1.54 Inch Cyphaspis (otarion) Cf. Boutscharafinense Devonian Trilobite Order Today [GsDrNEuT]
Impressive specimen, prepared in an exceptional way. This trilobite has been prepared as free-standing. This type of preparation requires meticulous work of tens of hours. Of course, many of the spines during the preparation process have been fractur
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All-in-one 22023 - Top Well Prepared "flying" 1.54 Inch Cyphaspis (otarion) Cf. Boutscharafinense Devonian Trilobite Order Today [GsDrNEuT]
Impressive specimen, prepared in an exceptional way. This trilobite has been prepared as free-standing. This type of preparation requires meticulous work of tens of hours. Of course, many of the spines during the preparation process have been fractured and glued again, with slight restorations in the fracture zones. A preparation like this without small restorations is impossible.
Synonyms: Conoparia Hawle and Corda 1847 (no. 155231), Otarionella Weyber 1965 (no. 21276)
Parent taxon: Aulacopleuridae according to P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain 2003
See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Thomas and Owens 1978 and Whittington 1941
Sister taxa: Aulacopleura, Aulacopleurinae, Coignouina, Cyphaspides, Dixiphopyge, Goodsiraspis, Maurotarion, Namuropyge, Otarioninae, Songkania
Subtaxa: Otarion (Otarion), Otarion (Tricornotarion), Otarion beggi, Otarion diffractum, Otarion filmeri, Otarion isoplates, Otarion listron, Otarion spinicaudatum, Otarion stigmatophthalmus, Otarionella taganon
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Environments: marine, carbonate, deep subtidal, shallow subtidal, deep subtidal shelf, reef, buildup or bioherm, offshore, transition zone/lower shoreface, offshore shelf, open shallow subtidal, slope, coastal, deep-water, basinal (carbonate), deep subtidal ramp.
Age range: 466.0 to 376.1 Ma
Distribution:
• Daleje of the Czech Republic
• Devonian of Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Canada (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon), China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Poland, the Russian Federation, Spain, United States (Nevada), Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Australia, Canada (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon Territory), China, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greenland, Latvia, Morocco, Poland, Tajikistan, the United Kingdom, United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (Québec)
• Ordovician of Belgium, Canada (Northwest Territories, Quebec), China, Sweden, the United Kingdom, United States (Nevada, Oklahoma, Virginia)
• Llandeilo of the United Kingdom
• Whiterockian of United States (New York)
• Arenig of France
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