Biology:Calyptaulax

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Short description: Extinct genus of trilobites

Calyptaulax
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Calyptaulax

Cooper, 1930

Calyptaulax (Cooper, 1930)[1] is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida that existed during the middle and upper Ordovician in what is now the United States states of New York, Oklahoma, Illinois, Missouri, Virginia, Vermont, Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Iowa, as well as the Canada provinces of Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, and the territory of Nunavut. Other countries Calyptaulax fossils are known from include Ireland, Norway , Russia , and the United Kingdom .

Type species

By original designation; Calyptaulax glabella Cooper, 1930: pp. 388 - 389, pl. 5, figs. 9 - 11. From the Matapedia Group (Ashgill), Perce, Quebec, Canada.[2]

Other species

  • Calyptaulax annulata Raymond, 1905
  • Calyptaulax callicephala Hall, 1847
  • Calyptaulax callirachis Cooper, 1953
  • Calyptaulax cornwalli Ross, Jr. and Barnes, 1967
  • Calyptaulax holstonensis Raymond, 1925
  • Calyptaulax incepta Whittington, 1965
  • Calyptaulax norvegicus Stormer, 1945
  • Calyptaulax sillimani Roy, 1941
  • Calyptaulax strasburgensis Ulrich and Delo, 1940

References

  1. Cooper, G. A. 1930. "Part II. New species from the Upper Ordovician of Perce. In Schuchert, C. & Cooper, G. A., Upper Ordovician and Lower Devonian stratigraphy and palaeontology of Perce, Quebec". Am. J. Sci., New Haven, (5) 20: 265-288, 365-392, pls 1-5.
  2. Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q14516404 entry