Pseudogygites

Taxobox
name = "Pseudogygites"
status = fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Trilobita
ordo = Asaphida
genus = "Pseudogygites"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =

"Pseudogygites" is an extinct genus of the class trilobita from the middle and upper ordovician.

Dimensions

Pseudogygites can reach 25 cms in length and 10 cms in width.

Description

The pygidium and the cephalon are about equal in size and shape. The glabella is expanded forward, reaching to the anterior margin. Pseudogygites has short genal spines and small compound eyes located in the center of the cephalon with the glabella in between. The pygidium contains faint pleural furrows and no axial rings.

Distribution

Pseudogygites is found in late Ordovician oil shales in New York, Ontario, and Southampton Island in the Canadian arctic.

Bibliography

Information taken from the Audubon Field Guide To Fossils.

Links

*http://www.trilobites.info
*http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca
*http://www.audubon.org
*http://www.fossilmuseum.net
*http://us.geocities.com/trilobitologist