Biology:Balnibarbi (trilobite)
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| Balnibarbi Temporal range: Early Arenig[1]
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| Genus: | Balnibarbi Fortey, 1974
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Balnibarbi is an extinct genus of trilobites in the family Olenidae. They are known from fossils excavated in Norway . They lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, a faunal stage that occurred about 479 to 472 million years ago.[2]
The genus is ancestral to, and co-existed sympatrically with, the better-known Cloacaspis.[3]
It was named for the fictional country of Balnibarbi featured in Gulliver's Travels, a place "populated by eccentric natural philosophers."[3]
Species include:[2]
- Balnibarbi ceryx
- Balnibarbi erugata
- Balnibarbi pulvurea
- Balnibarbi scimitar
- Balnibarbi sombrero
- Balnibarbi tholia
References
- ↑ Sepkoski, J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. Archived from the original on September 5, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Balnibarbi. Fossilworks.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fortey, R. A. 1974. The Ordovician trilobites of Spitsbergen. I. Olenidae. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 160, 1-129.
Wikidata ☰ Q4852421 entry
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