Dipleura
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| Fossil of D. dekayi from United States, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Genus: | Dipleura Green, 1832
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| D. dekayi | |
Dipleura is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida. It was described by Green in 1832, and the type species is Dipleura dekayi. The type locality was in the Hamilton Group in New York.[1]
These fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivores lived during the middle Devonian and Ordovician periods from 460.9 to 383.7 Ma.[2]
Distribution
Fossils of this genus have been found in the Devonian of France, Libya and United States, as well as in the Ordovician of United States.[3] Also in the Emsian-Givetian Floresta Formation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, fossils of Dipleura have been found.[4]
References
- ^ Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database - Trilobita
- ^ Dipleura at the Paleobiology Database
- ^ Morzadec et al., 2015, p.340
Bibliography
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Categories:
- Homalonotidae
- Phacopida genera
- Devonian trilobites
- Silurian trilobites
- Ordovician trilobites
- Devonian animals of Africa
- Devonian trilobites of Europe
- Fossils of France
- Trilobites of North America
- Ordovician United States
- Devonian United States
- Fossils of Georgia (U.S. state)
- Devonian trilobites of South America
- Devonian Colombia
- Fossils of Colombia
- Darriwilian first appearances
- Middle Devonian genus extinctions
- Fossil taxa described in 1832
- Floresta Formation
- Phacopida stubs