Galeaspis

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Galeaspis
Temporal range: [1]
Galeaspis sphaerica.jpg
Restoration of G. sphaerica
Scientific classification
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Trilobita
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incertae sedis
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Galeaspis

Galeaspis is an extinct genus of ptychopariid trilobite in the family . Species are found in the Seletinian Horizon of the Kuyandinian faunal stage of Late Cambrian marine strata in Central Kazakhstan.[1] Fossil specimens are usually semicircular to bean-shaped, incomplete cranidia, with globular glabella (especially typified by the ball-shaped glabellum of the type species, G. sphaerica).

References[]

  1. ^ a b Ivshin, N. K. Upper Cambrian trilobites of Kazakhstan. Amerind, 1983.


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