Meniscopsia

Meniscopsia beebi
Temporal range: Mid Cambrian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Ptychopariida
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Meniscopsia
Species:  M. beebi
Binomial name
Meniscopsia beebi
Robison & Babcock 2011

Meniscopsia is a genus of trilobite known from mid-Cambrian Lagerstätten of the western United States. The sediment-filled guts and the digestive glands of some specimens are preserved, indicating a predatory habit.[1]

References

  1. Robison, Richard A., and Loren E. Babcock. (2011). "Systematics, paleobiology, and taphonomy of some exceptionally preserved trilobites from Cambrian Lagerstätten of Utah". Paleontological Contributions 5: 1–47.
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