Mesonacinae
| Mesonacinae Temporal range: 516–513 Ma | |
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| Mesonacis vermontanus, late Lower Cambrian, Australia, Courtesy of Sam Gon III. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Trilobita |
| Order: | Redlichiida |
| Suborder: | Olenellina |
| Superfamily: | Olenelloidea |
| Family: | Olenellidae |
| Subfamily: | Mesonacinae |
| genera | |
The Mesonacinae comprise an extinct subfamily of trilobites that lived during the Botomian, found in North-America, Greenland and North-Western Scotland. The two genera in this subfamily are Mesonacis and Mesolenellus.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Lieberman, B.S. (1999). "Systematic Revision of the Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 45.
- ↑ Palmer, A.R.; Repina, L.N. (1993), "Through a Glass Darkly: Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Biostratigraphy of the Olenellina", The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 3: 1–35
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