30123 - Rare 0.48 Inch Colpocoryphe Middle Ordovician Trilobite - France
30123 - Rare 0.48 Inch Colpocoryphe Middle Ordovician Trilobite - France 30123 - Rare 0.48 Inch Colpocoryphe Middle Ordovician Trilobite - France 30123 - Rare 0.48 Inch Colpocoryphe Middle Ordovician Trilobite - France 30123 - Rare 0.48 Inch Colpocoryphe Middle Ordovician Trilobite - France

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30123 - Rare 0.48 Inch Colpocoryphe Middle Ordovician Trilobite - France

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Species
† Colpocoryphe (Novak and Perner, 1918)
Age
Middle Ordovician, Llanvirn Series, Llandeilian Stage (~470 Million Years)
Location
France
Formation
La Montagne Noir Fm
Size
12.1 mm   •    in
Weight
26 g   •    oz
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Description
Colpocoryphe, Novak and Perner 1918 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 21499

Parent taxon: Colpocoryphinae according to C. R. Congreve and B. S. Lieberman 2008

See also Dean 1983, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Plaesiacomia

Subtaxa: Colpocoryphe adisol, Colpocoryphe arago, Colpocoryphe grandis, Colpocoryphe inopinata, Colpocoryphe rouaulti

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Environments: offshore (21 collections), marine (14), offshore shelf (4), offshore (3), transition zone/lower shoreface (3), basinal (siliciclastic) (2), carbonate (2), shoreface (2), foreshore (2), deep-water (1), coastal (1), slope (1), basinal (siliceous) (1)

Age range: 478.6 to 457.5 Ma
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