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Shangtungia

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Shangtungia
Temporal range: Dresbachian[1]
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Shangtungia

Shangtungia is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from about 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-12.