Cryptolithus
Cryptolithus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Trilobita |
Order: | †Asaphida |
Family: | †Trinucleidae |
Genus: | †Cryptolithus , 1832[1] |
Cryptolithus is a genus of extinct trinucleid trilobites that lived during the Ordovician period.[2] They were mostly blind.[3] They are found in the United States, Canada, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, France, the Czech Republic, Morocco and Turkey.[4]
Species[]
Valid species of Cryptolithus include:[5]
- (Ulrich, 1879)
- (Ulrich & Whittington)
- (Barrande)
- (Whittard)
- (Whittard)
- (Ruedemann)
- (Foerste, 1924)
- (Sternberg)
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- (Ulrich, 1919)
- (, 1832)
- (Barrande)
References[]
- ^ Green, Jacob (1832). "A Monograph of the Trilobites of North America: With Coloured Models of the Species". 1. Joseph Brano: 72–78. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.66801. Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^ "Cryptolithus". Encyclopædia Britannica. 6 August 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ^ Stigall, A.L. "Cryptolithus". Atlas of Ordovician Life.
- ^ "†Cryptolithus Green 1832 (trilobite)". fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Museum of Comparative Zoology
Categories:
- Trinucleidae
- Asaphida genera