07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite
07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite 07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite 07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite 07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite 07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite 07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite 07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite 07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite 07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite 07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite

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07163 - Top Rare Rolled 1.49 Inch Parahomalonotus planus Lower Devonian Trilobite

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Species
Parahomalonotus planus, Koch (1883) - Trilobite
Age
Lower Devonian (~402 Million Years)
Location
Ouad Ghriss, Alnif Region, South Morocco
Formation
Alnif Lower Devonian Outcrops
Size
37.8 mm   •    in
Weight
109 g   •    oz
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Description

Extremely rare species nicely preserved. It has tiny restorations made on its shell during its meticulous and long preparation.

Homalonotidae is a family of trilobites that lived from the Ordovician to the Devonian. They are characterised by a shovel-like cephalon (head), and are closely related to the family Calymenidae.

Parahomalonotus sp, Reed 1918 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Arduennella, Burmeisterella, Burmeisteria, Colpocoryphinae, Digonus, Dipleura, Eohomalonotinae, Homalonotinae, Homalonotus, Iberocoryphe, Kerfornella, Kerfornellinae, Leiostegina

Subtaxa: Parahomalonotus calvus

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Environments: marine, deep subtidal, coastal, offshore, transition zone/lower shoreface 

Age range: 412.3 to 402.5 Ma

Distribution:

• Devonian of Algeria, Morocco , France , Germany , Poland , Turkey 


Parahomalonotus sp: Fossilworks - Paleobiology Database

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