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Paraceraurus
Temporal range: Ordovician
Paraceraurus exsul
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Phacopida
Family:
Cheiruridae
Genus:
Paraceraurus

Männil, 1958 [1]

Paraceraurus is a genus of trilobites that lived in the Ordovician period (485.4 to 443.4 Ma). Its remains have been found in China, Estonia, Sweden and North America. [2] These trilobites have a rounded and moderately convex cephalon. Glabella is convex or flattened, with a sub-rectangular outline. Thorax shows eleven segments. [3]

Selected species

[3]

References

  1. ^ Organism Names
  2. ^ Paraceraurus in the Paleobiology Database
  3. ^ a b Fossilstock
  • Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey
  • Trilobites of the families Cheiruridae and Encrinuridae from Estonia.] Geoloogia Instituudi Uurimused [Trud Inst Geol Acad Sci Est SSR] Tallinn, 3 1958: 165-205, 210-212. [Zoological Record Volume 95]


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