Odontopleurida
Encyclopedia
Odontopleurida is an order
of trilobite
s, containing the following taxa:
Odontopleuridae
Damesellidae
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...
of trilobite
Trilobite
Trilobites are a well-known fossil group of extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the Atdabanian stage of the Early Cambrian period , and they flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before...
s, containing the following taxa:
Odontopleuridae
- Acanthalomina
- ?Acidaspidella
- ?Acidaspides
- AcidaspisAcidaspisAcidaspis is an extinct genus of Odontopleurid trilobite from North America and Europe. Although small, it had long spines along its body....
- Anacaenaspis
- Apianurus
- Archaeopleura
- Boedaspis
- Borkopleura
- Brutonaspis
- Calipernurus
- Ceratocara
- Ceratocephala
- Ceratocephalinus
- Ceratonurus
- Chlustinia
- Dalaspis
- Diacanthaspis
- DicranurusDicranurusDicranurus was a genus of Lower Devonian lichid trilobites that lived in a shallow sea that lay between Euramerica and Gondwanaland, corresponding to modern-day Oklahoma and Morocco, respectively. As such, their fossils are found in Oklahoma and Morocco.Their bodies averaged about or so, in...
- Dudleyaspis
- Edgecombeaspis
- Eoleonaspis
- Exallaspis
- Gaotania
- Globulaspis
- Hispaniaspis
- Isoprusia
- Ivanopleura
- Kettneraspis
- Koneprusia
- Laethoprusia
- LeonaspisLeonaspisLeonaspis is a genus of trilobite that lived from the Late Ordovician to the early Devonian, and to date has been found on all continents except Antarctica.-Sources:* Fossils by David Ward...
- MeadowtownellaMeadowtownellaMeadowtownella is a rare species of Trilobite found in Ordovician rocks. It is similar to Acidaspis cincinnatiensis but without the occipital spine....
- Miraspis
- Ningnanaspis
- Odontopleura
- Orphanaspis
- Periallaspis
- Primaspis
- Proceratocephala
- Radiaspis
- Rinconaspis
- SelenopeltisSelenopeltisSelenopeltis is an extinct genus of trilobite from the Ordovician of Africa.- Sources :* http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Galleries/TrilobitesMorocco/Selenopeltis-buchii/Selenopeltis-buchii.htm...
- Selenopeltoides
- Sinespinaspis
- Stelckaspis
- Taemasaspis
- Uriarra
- Whittingtonia
Damesellidae
- ?AdelogonusAdelogonusAdelogonus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period....
- Ariaspis
- Bergeronites
- Blackwelderia
- BlackwelderioidesBlackwelderioidesBlackwelderioides is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period....
- Chiawangella
- CyrtoproraCyrtoproraCyrtoprora is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period....
- Damesella
- Damesops
- DipentaspisDipentaspisDipentaspis is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Cambrian Period, which lasted from approximately 542 to 488 million years ago....
- DipyrgotesDipyrgotesDipyrgotes is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period....
- Drepanura
- Duamsannella
- Fengduia
- Guancenshania
- ?Hercantyx
- HistiomonaHistiomonaHistiomona is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period....
- Jiawangaspis
- Liuheaspis
- Metashantungia
- Neodamesella
- Palaeadotes,
- Paradamesella
- Parashantungia
- Pingquania
- Pionaspis
- Protaitzehoia
- Pseudoblackwelderia
- Shantungia
- Stephanocare
- Taihangshania
- Taitzehoia
- Teinistion
- Xintaia
- Yanshanopyge