07540 - Top Rare Detailed 3.02 Inch Reedops sp Lower Devonian Trilobite

Extremely well preserved and prepared specimen. Nice eyes facets. Finest quality.

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acernaspis, Acuticryphops, Adastocephalum, Afrops, Altaesajania, Ananaspis, Babinops, Boeckops, Burtonops, Chotecops, Cordapeltis, Cryphops, Denckmannites, Dianops, Dienstina, Drotops, Ductina, Echinophacops, Eldredgeops, Eocryphops, Eophacops, Geesops, Kainops, Lochkovella, Nephranops, Nyterops, Omegops, Paciphacops, Pedinopariops, Phacopidella, Phacopinae, Phacops, Plagiolaria, Sambremeusaspis, Signatops, Struveaspis, Trimerocephalus, Zaplaops

Subtaxa: Reedops struveianus

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Environments: marine, deep subtidal, reef, buildup or bioherm, deep subtidal shelf, carbonate, offshore, shallow subtidal, deep subtidal ramp, basinal (siliceous), offshore shelf.

Age range: 418.7 to 402.5 Ma

Distribution:

• Devonian of Algeria , Canada  Ontario), the Czech Republic, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, United States (Oklahoma)

• Silurian to Devonian of China, United States (Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Australia