Contracheirurus

Contracheirurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Cheiruridae
Genus: Contracheirurus
Hatterton & Perry, 1984

Contracheirurus is a trilobite in the order Phacopida that existed during the lower Silurian of what is now the Northwest Territories of Canada. It was described by Hatterton and Perry in 1984, and the type species is Contracheirurus zuvegesi.[1]

References

  1. Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.

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