Dipleura
For the hexapod order, see Diplura.
| Dipleura Temporal range: Ordovician–Middle Devonian | |
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| Fossil of Dipleura dekayi from United States, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Trilobita |
| Order: | Phacopida |
| Family: | Homalonotidae |
| Genus: | Dipleura Green, 1832 |
Dipleura is a trilobite in the order Phacopida.
It was described by Green in 1832, and the type species is Dipleura dekayi. The type locality was in the Hamilton Group in New York.[1]
These fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivores lived during the middle Devonian and Ordovician periods from 460.9 to 383.7 Ma. [2]
Distribution
Fossils of this genus have been found in the Devonian of France, Libya and United States, as well as in the Ordovician of United States.
References
- ↑ Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database - Trilobita
- Dipleura at the Paleobiology Database
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