Acastoides

Acastoides
Temporal range: 428–392Ma

Middle Silurian (Wenlock) to Devonian (?Eifelian)

Acastoides zguilmensis, Devonian, Morocco.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Suborder: Phacopina
Superfamily: Acastoidea
Family: Acastidae
Genus: Acastoides
Delo, 1935
Species
  • A. henni (R. Richter, 1916) (type) = Acaste henni
  • A. constricta (Salter, 1864) synonyms Phacops (Acaste) downingiae constrictus, P. constrictus, Acaste (Acastoides) constrictus[1]
  • A. acutilobata (Knod, 1908)
  • A. gamonedensis
  • A. haddadi Chatterton, Fortey, Brett, Gibb & McKellar, 2006
  • A. insolitus Wolfart, 1968
  • A. maura Alberti, 1969
  • A. paeckelmanni R. Richter & E. Richter, 1939
  • A. zguilmensis Chatterton, Fortey, Brett, Gibb & McKellar, 2006

Acastoides is an extinct genus of trilobite that lived during the Silurian and Devonian. It has been found in Bolivia, France, Morocco, Poland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Distribution

Taxonomy

Species previously assigned to Acastoides

References

  1. ↑ Sherwood, J.H. (1966). "A Revision of Acaste downingiae (Murchinson) and related trilobites" (PDF). Palaeontology 9 (2): 183–207.
  2. ↑ "42 (Acastoides constricta)". The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, the Lapworth Museum of Geology and the University of Birmingham Collections. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Edgecombe, G.D. (1993). "Silurian Acastacean trilobites of the Americas" (PDF). Journal of Paleontology 67 (4): 535–548.

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