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Coronocephalus

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Coronocephalus
Temporal range: 443.7–426.2 Ma
Coronocephalus gauluoensis
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Coronocephalus

Grabau, 1924
Species

Several, including:

  • Coronocephalus elegans Xia
  • Coronocephalus gauluoensis
Synonyms
  • Coronocephalina
  • Senticucullus
Fossil of Coronocephalus - picture taken at Museo di Arsago Seprio, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy

Coronocephalus is an extinct genus of trilobites in the Phacopid family Encrinuridae. Species are from the Silurian of Australia and Japan, and from the Silurian and Ordovician of China.[1][2]

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References

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  1. ^ Zong, Rui-Wen; Liu, Qi; Wei, Fan; Gong, Yi-Ming (July 2017). "Fentou Biota: A Llandovery (Silurian) Shallow-Water Exceptionally Preserved Biota from Wuhan, Central China". The Journal of Geology. 125 (4): 469–478. Bibcode:2017JG....125..469Z. doi:10.1086/692331. ISSN 0022-1376. S2CID 135076529.
  2. ^ Stocker, Christopher P.; Siveter, Derek J.; Lane, Philip D.; Williams, Mark; Oji, Tatsuo; Wallis, Simon R.; Tanaka, Gengo; Komatsu, Toshifumi; Siveter, David J.; Vandenbroucke, Thijs R. A. (March 2019). "The paleobiogeographical significance of the Silurian and Devonian trilobites of Japan". Island Arc. 28 (2): e12287. Bibcode:2019IsArc..28E2287S. doi:10.1111/iar.12287. hdl:1854/LU-8610848. S2CID 134981872.
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