Validaspis
| Validaspis | |
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| Restoration of V. judomica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Ptychopariida |
| Family: | †Palaeolenidae |
| Genus: | †Validaspis Repina, 1977 |
Validaspis is an extinct genus of ptychopariid trilobite from the superfamily Ellipsocephaloidea. It lived during the early part of the Botomian stage of the early Cambrian.[1] Fossils of V. judomica are found in the upper portion of the Petrotsvet Formation in the Siberian Platform.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- ^ Shergold, J. H., A. Yu Rozanov, and A. R. Palmer. "The Cambrian System on the Siberian Platform." Trondheim: IUGS Publication (1991).
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