30024 - Top Rare 0.61 Inch Ditomopyge sp Permian Trilobite - Kansas, USA
30024 - Top Rare 0.61 Inch Ditomopyge sp Permian Trilobite - Kansas, USA 30024 - Top Rare 0.61 Inch Ditomopyge sp Permian Trilobite - Kansas, USA 30024 - Top Rare 0.61 Inch Ditomopyge sp Permian Trilobite - Kansas, USA 30024 - Top Rare 0.61 Inch Ditomopyge sp Permian Trilobite - Kansas, USA 30024 - Top Rare 0.61 Inch Ditomopyge sp Permian Trilobite - Kansas, USA

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30024 - Top Rare 0.61 Inch Ditomopyge sp Permian Trilobite - Kansas, USA

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Species
† Ditomopyge sp
Age
Permian (~275 Million Years)
Location
Grant Summit, Kansas, USA
Formation
Florena Shale Beattie Limestone Formation Permian-Wolfcampian
Size
15.4 mm   •    in
Weight
2 g   •    oz
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Description
Ditomopyge (trilobite)
Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
 
PaleoDB taxon number: 21155

Parent taxon: Ditomopyginae according to R. M. Owens 2003

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acanthophillipsia, Acropyge, Ameura, Ampulliglabella, Anisopyge, Delaria, Hentigia, Iranaspidion, Jimbokranion, Microphillipsia, Novoameura, Permoproetus, Pseudophillipsia, Simulopaladin, Timoraspis, Vidria

Subtaxa: Ditomopyge amorni, Ditomopyge bjornensis, Ditomopyge decurtata, Ditomopyge dereimsi, Ditomopyge fatmii, Ditomopyge granulata, Ditomopyge kumpani, Ditomopyge meridionalis, Ditomopyge ovalis, Ditomopyge scitula, Ditomopyge scitulus, Ditomopyge whitei, Ditomopyge yampupatensis

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Type: Phillipsia (Griffithides) scitulus

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Environments: marine (15 collections), carbonate (10), shallow subtidal (6), coastal (3), open shallow subtidal (3), (2), reef, buildup or bioherm (1), delta front (1), offshore shelf (1)

Age range: 345.3 to 254.0 Ma

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (9 collections), Bolivia (3), Canada (3: British Columbia, Nunavut, Yukon), China (2), Malaysia (1), Mexico (2), Pakistan (1), Slovenia (1), Thailand (1), United States (8: Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas)

• Virgilian of United States (11: Illinois, New Mexico, Ohio, West Virginia)

• Desmoinesian of United States (27: Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma)

• Atokan of United States (6: Ohio)

• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Nunavut), Iran (1), Italy (1), United States (30: Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah)
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