Batocara

Batocara
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Order:	Phacopida
Family:	Encrinuridae
Genus:	Batocara; Strusz, 1980
Synonyms
	Pacificurus;

Batocara is a genus of phacopid trilobite in the family Encrinuridae. The type species, B. bowningi, was described originally as Encrinurus bowningi by Foerste in 1888.^[2] In 1980, D.L. Strusz erected Batocara for 'Encrinurus' bowningi. Batocara also contains the species B. borenorense^[3] and B. fritillum.

References

^ A Giant New Trimerellide Brachiopod from the Wenlock (Early Silurian) of New South Wales, Australia D.L. Strusz, I.G. Percival, A.J. Wright, J.W. Pickett and A. Byrnes.
^ Encrinuridae Similar Trilobite Families Description Silurian Species from Eastern Australia at EurekaMag.com.
^ Effaced Styginid Trilobites from the Silurian of New South Wales D.J. Holloway and P.D. Lane.

External links

Batocara at the Paleobiology Database

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[1] A Giant New Trimerellide Brachiopod from the Wenlock (Early Silurian) of New South Wales, Australia D.L. Strusz, I.G. Percival, A.J. Wright, J.W. Pickett and A. Byrnes.

[2] Encrinuridae Similar Trilobite Families Description Silurian Species from Eastern Australia at EurekaMag.com.

[3] Effaced Styginid Trilobites from the Silurian of New South Wales D.J. Holloway and P.D. Lane.

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