Aspidaeglina
| Aspidaeglina Temporal range: Ordovician (Arenig) | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Trilobita |
| Order: | Asaphida |
| Superfamily: | Cyclopygoidea |
| Family: | Cyclopygidae |
| Genus: | Aspidaeglina Holub, 1911 |
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Aspidaeglina is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period,[1] a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 473 to 470 million years ago.
Distriburion
- A. miranda is known from the Lower Ordovician of the Czech Republic (Arenig, Klabava Formation).[2]
- A. striata occurs in the Lower Ordovician of China (Pagoda Formation of southwestern Shaanxi).[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- ↑ R.C. Moore, ed. (1959). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part O – Arthropoda (Trilobitomorpha).
- ↑ Zhou Zhiyi; Zhou Zhiqiang (2009). "Ordovician cyclopygid trilobites from the Pagoda Formation of southwestern Shaanxi, China". AAP Memoir 37: 87–101. Retrieved 7 June 2013.