Biology:Liobole

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Short description: Extinct genus of trilobites

Liobole
Temporal range: 360–341 Ma
Visian
Liobole.jpg
Liobole Glabra
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Proetida
Family: Proetidae
Genus: Liobole
Richter and Richter, 1949
Species and subspecies
  • Liobole Owens and Tilsley, 1995

Liobole is a lower Carboniferous proetid trilobite.

Etymology

Liobole was described from material found in the Moravian Karst.[1] The species shown is from the lower carboniferous of SW England.[2]

Distribution

Liobole is found in the European Culm facies and has been collected from the lower Carboniferous across Europe for example from (Visian) deposits of SW England and (Tournaisian) of Poland and as far east as China.[3]

Taxonomy

Identified as proetid trilobite from the lower Visean Brezina formation by Chlupáč 1966.

References

External links


Wikidata ☰ Q116193365 entry