Kleptothule rasmusseni

Taxobox
name = "Kleptothule rasmusseni"
status = Fossil


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Kleptothule rasmusseni" and "Buenaspis forteyi"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Trilobita
ordo = Redlichiida
subordo = ?Olenellina
superfamilia = ?Fallotaspidoidea
familia = ?Nevadiidae
genus = "Kleptothule"
species = "K. rasmusseni"
binomial = "Kleptothule rasmusseni"
binomial_authority = (Budd) 1995

"Kleptothule rasmusseni" ("Rasmussen's Thief of Thule") was a small, elongated trilobite, about 3 cm in length, and about 5 to 6 mm in width, from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte. It is currently placed in the family Nevadiidae, though this may change with further study.

Its cephalon is composed of at least five segments, and its elongated thorax is composed of 27+ segments. The 20, or so, segments of the pygidium are poorly defined, as they are fused together.

External links

* Peripatus Homepage "Trilobite Origins" [http://www.peripatus.gen.nz/Taxa/Arthropoda/Trilobita/TriOri.html]
*http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Cambrian/Sirius_Passet.html