Pliomerina

Pliomerina
Temporal range: Middle–Late Ordovician
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Pliomeridae
Genus: Pliomerina
Chugaeva, 1958 [1]

Pliomerina is a genus of trilobites. A new species, P. tashanensis, was described from the late Ordovician of China by Dong-Chan Lee in 2012.[2]

References

  1. Gregory D. Edgecombe, Brian D. E. Chatterton, Beatriz G. Waisfeld and Norberto E. Vaccari (1999). "Ordovician pliomerid and prosopiscid trilobites from Argentina". Journal of Paleontology 73 (6): 1144–1154. JSTOR 1306825.
  2. Dong-Chan Lee (2012). "Late Ordovician trilobites from the Xiazhen Formation in Zhuzhai, Jiangxi Province, China". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (in press). doi:10.4202/app.2010.0036.
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