Cheiruridae

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cheiruridae
Temporal range: Ordovician–Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Cheiruridae
Hawle & Corda, 1847
Selected genera

The family Cheiruridae was a family of phacopid trilobites of the suborder Cheirurina. Its members, as with other members of the suborder, had distinctive pygidia modified into finger-like spines. They first appeared near the very beginning of the Ordovician, and persisted until the Devonian.[1]

Genera

References

  1. Curtis R. Congreve & Bruce S. Lieberman (2010). "Phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis of deiphonine trilobites" (PDF). Journal of Paleontology 84 (1): 128–136. doi:10.1666/09-026.1. 


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.