Aspidaeglina
Appearance
Aspidaeglina Temporal range: [1]
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Genus: | Aspidaeglina Holub, 1911
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Aspidaeglina is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period,[1] a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 473 to 470 million years ago.
Distribution
- A. miranda is known from the Lower Ordovician of the Czech Republic (Arenig, Klabava Formation).[2]
- A. striata occurs in the Lower Ordovician of China (Pagoda Formation of southwestern Shaanxi).[3]
References
- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
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- ^ Zhou Zhiyi; Zhou Zhiqiang (2009). "Ordovician cyclopygid trilobites from the Pagoda Formation of southwestern Shaanxi, China". AAP Memoir. 37: 87–101. Retrieved 7 June 2013.[permanent dead link]