Biology:Aspidaeglina

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Short description: Extinct genus of trilobites

Aspidaeglina
Temporal range: Ordovician (Arenig)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Asaphida
Family: Cyclopygidae
Genus: Aspidaeglina
Holub, 1911
Type species
Aspidaeglina miranda
Species
  • A. miranda Holub, 1911
  • A. striata (Lu, 1975)

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.[1]

Distribution

  • 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. 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class. Retrieved 2008-01-12. 
  2. R.C. Moore, ed (1959). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part O – Arthropoda (Trilobitomorpha). 
  3. Zhou Zhiyi; Zhou Zhiqiang (2009). "Ordovician cyclopygid trilobites from the Pagoda Formation of southwestern Shaanxi, China". AAP Memoir 37: 87–101. http://159.226.74.248:8000/bbzl_view.jsp?wztm=Ordovician+cyclopygid+trilobites+from+the+Pagoda+Formation+of+southwestern+Shaanxi%2C+China. Retrieved 7 June 2013. 

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