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Homalonotidae
Temporal range: Ordovician–DevonianHomalonotus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Trilobita Order: Phacopida Family: Homalonotidae
Chapman, 1890Homalonotidae is a family of trilobites that lived from the Ordovician to the Devonian. They are characterised by a shovel-like cephalon (head), and are closely related to the family Calymenidae.[1]
It contains the following genera:[2]
- Arduennella
- Brongniartella
- Burmeisterella
- Burmeisteria
- Digonus
- Dipleura
- Eohomalonotus
- Homalonotus
- Huemacaspis
- Iberocoryphe
- Kerfornella
- Leiostegina
- Parahomalonotus
- Plaesiacomia
- Platycoryphe
- Scabrella
- Trimerus
References
- ^ Curtis R. Congreve & Bruce S. Lieberman (2008). "Phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis of Ordovician homalonotid trilobites" (PDF). The Open Paleontology Journal 1: 24–32. http://paleo.ku.edu/geo/faculty/BSL/24TOPALOJ.pdf.
- ^ S. M. Gon III. "Order Phacopida". http://www.trilobites.info/ordphacopida.htm. Retrieved November 14, 2010.
Categories:- Phacopida
- Trilobite stubs
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