Biology:Damesellidae
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Short description: Family of odontopleurid trilobites
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| Fossil of Damesella paronai, Tianjin Natural History Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Odontopleurida |
| Family: | †Damesellidae Kobayashi, 1935 |
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Damesellidae is a family of odontopleurid trilobites found in late Middle to Late Cambrian marine strata, primarily of China . Damesellids are closely related to the odontopleurids of Odontopleuridae, but are not nearly as spinose, nor possess spines as exaggerated as Odontopleuridae. Like Odontopleuridae odontopleurids, damesellids have broad, bar-shaped cranidia with ledge-like borders. Damesellidae may represent transitional forms between more primitive, possibly ancestral ptychopariids and more advanced odontopleurids.
Genera
Genera include
- ?Adelogonus
- Bergeronites
- Blackwelderia
- Blackwelderioides
- Chiawangella
- Cyrtoprora
- Damesella
- Damesops
- Dipentaspis
- Dipyrgotes
- Neodrepanura
- Duamsannella
- Fengduia
- Guancenshania
- ?Hercantyx
- Histiomona
- Jiawangaspis
- Karslanus [1]
- Liuheaspis
- Metashantungia
- Neodamesella
- Palaeadotes,
- Paradamesella
- Parashantungia
- Pingquania
- Pionaspis
- Protaitzehoia
- Pseudoblackwelderia
- Shantungia
- Stephanocare
- Taihangshania
- Taitzehoia
- Teinistion
- Xintaia
- Yanshanopyge
References
- ↑ Hüseyin Özdikmen (2009). "Nomenclatural changes for twenty trilobites genera". Munis Entomology and Zoology 4 (1): 155–171. http://www.munisentzool.org/yayin/vol4/issue1/155-171.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q16625194 entry
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