Cromus

Cromus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Encrinuridae
Genus: Cromus
Barrande, 1852
Species
  • C. intercostatus
  • C. canorus

Cromus is a genus of phacopid trilobite in the family Encrinuridae, that existed during the upper Silurian in what is now the Czech Republic. The genus was described by Barrande in 1852, and the type species is C. intercostatus. It also contains the species C. canorus.

The type specimen was described from the Kopanina Formation.[1]

References

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

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