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Dudleyaspis

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Dudleyaspis
Temporal range: Middle Silurian-Late Devonian, Homerian–Frasnian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Odontopleurida
Family: Odontopleuridae
Genus: Dudleyaspis
Prantl & Pribyl, 1949
Species
  • Dudleyaspis (Dudleyaspis) hamrensis Ramsköld, 1984
  • Dudleyaspis (Snoderaspis) quinquespinosa Campbell, 1967 (Lake, 1896)
  • Dudleyaspis (Dudleyaspis) uncifera Ramsköld, 1984
  • Dudleyaspis (Dudleyaspis) uncifera Ramsköld, 1984

Dudleyaspis (meaning "Dudley shield") is an extinct genus of Lower to Middle Devonian odontopleurid trilobites that lived in a shallow sea that lay between Euramerica and Gondwana.[1] It was named in 1949 by Prantl & Pribyl.[2]

Fossils of Dudleyaspis have been found in the following locations:

References

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  1. ^ a b Ramsköld, L. (1984). Silurian Odontopleurid trilobites from Gotland. Palaeontology 27, 2, 239–264.
  2. ^ F. Prantl and A. Pribyl. (1949). On the genus Symphysurus Goldfuss and allied forms from the Ordovician of Bohemia (Trilobitae). Véstník Královské Ceské Spole ností Nauk Trída mat.-pfír 12:1–16
  3. ^ Wright A. J., Chatterton B. D. E. (1988) Early Devonian trilobites from the Jesse Limestone, New South Wales, Australia, Journal of Paleontology 62 1, 93–103
  4. ^ Chatterton B. D. E., Wright A. J. (1986) Silicified Early Devonian trilobites from Mudgee, New South Wales, Alcheringa 10 3, 279–296
  5. ^ Strusz D. L., Garratt M. J. (1999) Australian communities, Paleocommunities – a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian, 177–199
  6. ^ Edgecombe G. D. (1994) New Lower Silurian (Llandovery) encrinurine trilobites from the Mackenzie Mountains, Canada, Journal of Paleontology 68 4, 824–837
  7. ^ Ludvigsen R. (1975) Ordovician formations and faunas, southern Mackenzie Mountains, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12, 663–697
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  9. ^ Kíž J. (1992) Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia, National Museum of Wales, Geological Series 13, 1–111
  10. ^ Williams, A. (1974.) Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire, ..Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology).., Supplement 11, 1–158
  11. ^ Curtis N.J., Lane P.D. (1997) The Llandovery trilobites of England and Wales. Part 1, Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 151, 1–50
  12. ^ Klapper G., Feist R., et al (1993) Definition of the Frasnian/Famennian Stage boundary, Episodes 16 4, 433–441
  13. ^ House M. R., Becker R. T., et al (2000) The Frasnian/Famennian boundary GSSP at Coumiac, southern France, Courier Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg 225, 59–75
  14. ^ a b c Mikulic D. G. (1999) Silurian trilobite associations in North America, Paleocommunities—a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian, 793–798
  15. ^ Mikulic D. G. (1981) Trilobites in Paleozoic carbonate buildups, Lethaia 14 1, 45–56
  16. ^ Amsden T. W. (1975) Hunton Group of the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma:, Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 121, 1–301