Biology:Mesonacinae

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Mesonacinae
Temporal range: 516–513 Ma
Botomian
Mesonacis vermontanus.jpg
Mesonacis vermontanus, late Lower Cambrian, Australia, Courtesy of Sam Gon III.
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Mesonacinae

Walcott, 1890
Genera

The Mesonacinae comprise an extinct subfamily of trilobites that lived during the Botomian, found in North-America, Greenland and North-Western Scotland. The two genera in this subfamily are Mesonacis and Mesolenellus.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lieberman, B.S. (1999). "Systematic Revision of the Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 45. http://peabody.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/scientific-publications/ypmB45_1999.pdf. Retrieved 2012-10-30. 
  2. Palmer, A.R.; Repina, L.N. (1993), "Through a Glass Darkly: Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Biostratigraphy of the Olenellina", The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 3: 1–35, http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/3760 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q6821537 entry