Meniscopsia
Meniscopsia beebi Temporal range: Mid Cambrian | |
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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
- ↑ 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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