Cyamella (genus)

Cyamella
Temporal range: Ordovician
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Proetida
Family: Rorringtoniidae
Genus: Cyamella
Owens in Owens & Hammann, 1990
Synonyms
  • "Cyamops" Owens, 1978

Cyamella is a genus of trilobites. It was originally described by Robert M. Owens in 1978,[1] as "Cyamops", a junior homonym of the fly genus Cyamops, but was renamed in 1990.[2]

References

  1. R. M. Owens (1978). "The trilobite genera Panarchaeogonus Opik, Isbergia Warburg and Cyamops gen. nov. from the Ordovician of Balto-Scandia and the British Isles". Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 58 (3): 199–219.
  2. Adrian Popp & Helje Pärnaste (2008). "Morphometric study of the Ordovician proetid trilobite Cyamella stensioei Owens, 1978". In Isabel Rábano, Rodolfo Gozalo & Diego García-Bellido Capdevila. Advances in Trilobite Research. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 9. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España. ISBN 978-84-7840-759-0.
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