Birmanites
Appearance
Birmanites Temporal range:
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B. ingens from Czech Republic at the National Museum (Prague) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Trilobita |
Order: | †Asaphida |
Family: | †Asaphidae |
Genus: | †Birmanites Sheng, 1934 |
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Birmanites is a genus of trilobites in the order Asaphida, family Asaphidae.
They lived in the Ordovician period, from the Tremadocian age until the Lower Ashgillian age (488.3-449.5 million years ago). These arthropods were a low-level epifauna, fast-moving and detritivore.
Distribution
[edit]Ordovician of Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom; Llandeilo of China; Arenigian of Argentina, China.
List
[edit]- Birmanites yunnanensis (China)
References
[edit]- Birmanites at Biolib
- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Trilobita
- Paleobiology Database
Categories:
- Asaphidae
- Asaphida genera
- Prehistoric life of Europe
- Silurian trilobites
- Cambrian trilobites
- Ordovician trilobites of Asia
- Cambrian first appearances
- Silurian extinctions
- Ordovician trilobites of Europe
- Fossils of the Czech Republic
- Letná Formation
- Ordovician trilobites of South America
- Fossils of Argentina
- Tremadocian
- Floian
- Dapingian
- Darriwilian
- Sandbian
- Paleozoic life of Quebec
- Asaphida stubs