30345 - Top Rare 0.46 Inch Otarion diffractum Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic
30345 - Top Rare 0.46 Inch Otarion diffractum Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic 30345 - Top Rare 0.46 Inch Otarion diffractum Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic 30345 - Top Rare 0.46 Inch Otarion diffractum Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic

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30345 - Top Rare 0.46 Inch Otarion diffractum Silurian Trilobite - Czech Republic

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Species
† Otarion diffractum (Zenker, 1833)
Age
Silurian (430 million years)
Location
Kosov, Czech Republic
Formation
Kosov Silurian Outcrops
Size
11.7 mm   •    in
Weight
2 g   •    oz
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Description
Otarion diffractum, Zenker 1833 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Aulacopleuridae

PaleoDB taxon number: 346965

Belongs to Otarion according to A. T. Thomas and R. M. Owens 1978

Sister taxa: Otarion (Otarion), Otarion (Tricornotarion), Otarion beggi, Otarion filmeri, Otarion isoplates, Otarion listron, Otarion spinicaudatum, Otarion stigmatophthalmus, Otarionella taganon

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Environments: marine (5 collections), offshore shelf (1)

Age range: 422.9 to 418.7 Ma

Distribution:

• Silurian of the Czech Republic (17 collections), Morocco (1)
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