Aspidaeglina
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Asaphida |
| Family: | †Cyclopygidae |
| Genus: | †Aspidaeglina Holub, 1911 |
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| Aspidaeglina miranda | |
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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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ a b 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. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- ^ R.C. Moore, ed. (1959). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part O – Arthropoda (Trilobitomorpha).
- ^ Zhou Zhiyi; Zhou Zhiqiang (2009). "Ordovician cyclopygid trilobites from the Pagoda Formation of southwestern Shaanxi, China". AAP Memoir. 37: 87–101. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
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