Olenidae
Olenidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Trilobita |
Order: | †Ptychopariida |
Suborder: | †Olenina |
Superfamily: | † |
Family: | †Olenidae Burmeister, 1843 |
genera | |
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Olenidae is a family of ptychopariid trilobites. Some genera, Balnibarbi and Cloacaspis, are thought to have evolved a symbiotic relationship with sulfur-eating bacteria from which they derived nutrition.[1]
Genera[]
- Angelina =),
- Balnibarbi
- (=; =)
- (/Boeckia BROGGER; =)
- Cloacaspis
- (=),
- (=),
- (=),
- (=;=; =; =; *),
- Olenus (=),
- (/*),
- Peltura (/; =),
- Psilocara
- Rhodonaspis
- Svalbardites
- Triarthrus (/* EATON)?
- (=)
- Westergaardites
- .[2]
References[]
- ^ Fortey, Richard (June 2000), "Olenid trilobites: The oldest known chemoautotrophic symbionts?", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97 (12): 6574–6578, Bibcode:2000PNAS...97.6574F, doi:10.1073/pnas.97.12.6574, PMC 18664, PMID 10841557
- ^ Family Olenidae
External links[]
- Olenidae at Fossilworks
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Categories:
- Olenina
- Trilobite families
- Ptychopariida stubs