30353 - Top Rare 0.43 Inch Harpidella misera Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic
30353 - Top Rare 0.43 Inch Harpidella misera Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic 30353 - Top Rare 0.43 Inch Harpidella misera Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic 30353 - Top Rare 0.43 Inch Harpidella misera Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic 30353 - Top Rare 0.43 Inch Harpidella misera Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic 30353 - Top Rare 0.43 Inch Harpidella misera Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic

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30353 - Top Rare 0.43 Inch Harpidella misera Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic

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Species
† Harpidella (H.) misera (Hawle & Corda,1847)
Age
Silurian (430 million years)
Location
Kosov, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Formation
Ludlow, Kopanina Formation
Size
11 mm   •    in
Weight
17 g   •    oz
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Description
Harpidella, McCoy 1849 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Aulacopleuridae
 
PaleoDB taxon number: 21197

Parent taxon: Aulacopleurinae according to A. W. Owen and D. A. T. Harper 1982

See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Owen 1981, Owen and Bruton 1980, Owens and Fortey 2009, Sepkoski 2002 and Thomas and Owens 1978

Sister taxa: Otarionides, Pseudotrinodus

Subtaxa: Harpidella (Harpidella), Harpidella (Rhinotarion), Harpidella megalops, Harpidella occidentalis, Harpidella tridens

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Type: Harpes megalops

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Environments: marine (31 collections), deep subtidal ramp (4), transition zone/lower shoreface (4), reef, buildup or bioherm (4), deep subtidal shelf (4), carbonate (3), open shallow subtidal (3), offshore shelf (3), deep subtidal (2), offshore (2), platform/shelf-margin reef (1), deep-water (1), shallow subtidal (1), offshore (1), slope/ramp reef (1), slope (1)

Age range: 457.5 to 376.1 Ma

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (1 collection), Canada (2: Ontario), the Czech Republic (8), Morocco (1), United States (1: Iowa)

• Silurian of Algeria (1), Australia (1), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Quebec), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (1), Greenland (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (1), Morocco (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (6: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma, Wisconsin)

• Ordovician of Estonia (1), Ireland (5), Norway (22), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (3: Virginia)
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