Biology:Bolbocephalus
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Short description: Genus of trilobites
| Bolbocephalus Temporal range: Early Arenig[1]
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Proetida |
| Family: | †Bathyuridae |
| Subfamily: | †Bathyurinae |
| Genus: | †Bolbocephalus Whitfield, 1890 |
| Type species | |
| Bathyurus seelyi Whitfield, 1886
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Bolbocephalus is a genus of proetid trilobites in the family Bathyuridae. Species lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period,[1] a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago, in marine strata of the United States , Canada , and Greenland.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- ↑ McCobb, L.M.E.; Boyce, W.D.; Knight, I.; Stouge, S. (2014). "Lower Ordovician trilobites from the Septembersø formation, North-East Greenland". Alcheringa 38 (4): 575–598. doi:10.1080/03115518.2014.951913. Bibcode: 2014Alch...38..575M.
Wikidata ☰ Q4938999 entry
