30120 - Top Rare 1.25 Inch Kettneraspis aracana Upper Silurian Trilobite - Bolivia
30120 - Top Rare 1.25 Inch Kettneraspis aracana Upper Silurian Trilobite - Bolivia 30120 - Top Rare 1.25 Inch Kettneraspis aracana Upper Silurian Trilobite - Bolivia 30120 - Top Rare 1.25 Inch Kettneraspis aracana Upper Silurian Trilobite - Bolivia 30120 - Top Rare 1.25 Inch Kettneraspis aracana Upper Silurian Trilobite - Bolivia 30120 - Top Rare 1.25 Inch Kettneraspis aracana Upper Silurian Trilobite - Bolivia

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30120 - Top Rare 1.25 Inch Kettneraspis aracana Upper Silurian Trilobite - Bolivia

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Species
Kettneraspis aracana (Steinmann, 1912)
Age
Upper Silurian (~440 Million Years)
Location
Bolivia
Formation
Bolivia Upper Silurian Outcrops
Size
31.8 mm   •    in
Weight
138 g   •    oz
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Description
 † Kettneraspis, Prantl and Pribyl 1949 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Odontopleuridae

PaleoDB taxon number: 19811

Parent taxon: Odontopleurinae according to J. M. Adrain and L. Ramskold 1997

See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Whittington 1956

Sister taxa: Acidaspis, Anacaenaspis, Dalaspis, Diacanthaspis, Edgecombeaspis, Leonaspis, Odontopleura, Primaspis, Radiaspis

Subtaxa: Kettneraspis copelandi, Kettneraspis ramskoeldi, Kettneraspis wrightae

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Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Environments: marine (4 collections), open shallow subtidal (4), slope (3), coastal (1), offshore (1), shallow subtidal (1)

Age range: 439.0 to 388.1 Ma
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