30566 - Rare 0.69 Inch Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis Cambrian Trilobite - China
30566 - Rare 0.69 Inch Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis Cambrian Trilobite - China 30566 - Rare 0.69 Inch Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis Cambrian Trilobite - China 30566 - Rare 0.69 Inch Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis Cambrian Trilobite - China 30566 - Rare 0.69 Inch Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis Cambrian Trilobite - China

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30566 - Rare 0.69 Inch Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis Cambrian Trilobite - China

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Species
† Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis (Mansuy, 1912)
Age
Cambrian (~500 Million Years)
Location
HaiKou village, Yunnan Province, China
Formation
Heilinpu Formation
Size
17.6 mm   •    in
Weight
83 g   •    oz
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Description

† Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis, Mansuy 1912 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Yunnanocephalidae

 
PaleoDB taxon number: 235927

Alternative combination: Ptychoparia yunnanensis

Belongs to Yunnanocephalus according to Kobayashi 1944

Sister taxa: Yunnanocephalus planifrons, Yunnanocephalus subparallelus

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Environments: coastal (1 collection), marine (1), open shallow subtidal (1), offshore shelf (1)

Age range: 516.0 to 513.0 Ma

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Antarctica (1 collection), China (18)

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