Blackwelderioides

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Blackwelderioides
Fossil range: Dresbachian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Genus: Blackwelderioides

Blackwelderioides is an extinct genus from a well known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501-490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period[1].

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560.