30559 - Beautiful 1.58 Inch Positive/Negative Metacryphaeus venustus Lower Devonian Trilobite - Bolivia
30559 - Beautiful 1.58 Inch Positive/Negative Metacryphaeus venustus Lower Devonian Trilobite - Bolivia 30559 - Beautiful 1.58 Inch Positive/Negative Metacryphaeus venustus Lower Devonian Trilobite - Bolivia 30559 - Beautiful 1.58 Inch Positive/Negative Metacryphaeus venustus Lower Devonian Trilobite - Bolivia 30559 - Beautiful 1.58 Inch Positive/Negative Metacryphaeus venustus Lower Devonian Trilobite - Bolivia 30559 - Beautiful 1.58 Inch Positive/Negative Metacryphaeus venustus Lower Devonian Trilobite - Bolivia 30559 - Beautiful 1.58 Inch Positive/Negative Metacryphaeus venustus Lower Devonian Trilobite - Bolivia 30559 - Beautiful 1.58 Inch Positive/Negative Metacryphaeus venustus Lower Devonian Trilobite - Bolivia 30559 - Beautiful 1.58 Inch Positive/Negative Metacryphaeus venustus Lower Devonian Trilobite - Bolivia

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30559 - Beautiful 1.58 Inch Positive/Negative Metacryphaeus venustus Lower Devonian Trilobite - Bolivia

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Species
† Metacryphaeus venustus (Wolfart, 1968)
Age
Lower Devonian (~410 Million Years)
Location
Tarija, Bolivia
Formation
Tarija Lower Devonian Outcrops
Size
40.1 mm   •    in
Weight
34 g   •    oz
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Description
Metacryphaeus, Reed 1907 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calmoniidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 21644

Parent taxon: Calmoniidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Anchiopella, Andinacaste, Australoacaste, Australops, Bainella, Bouleia, Calmonia, Chiarumanipyge, Clarkeaspis, Cryphaeoides, Deltacephalaspis, Eldredgeia, Jujuyops, Kozlowskiaspis, Malvinella, Malvinocooperella, Oosthuizenella, Palpebrops, Parabouleia, Paracalmonia, Pennaia, Phacopina, Plesioconvexa, Plesiomalvinella, Schizostylus, Tarijactinoides, Tibagya, Typhloniscus, Vogesina, Wolfartaspis

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Environments: marine (all collections)

Age range: 391.9 to 383.7 Ma

Distribution:

• Devonian of Bolivia (3 collections), Brazil (22), South Africa (11), Uruguay (1)
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