Biology:Thysanopyge

Short description: Extinct genus of trilobites

Thysanopyge Temporal range: Early Arenig ~478–450 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	†Trilobita
Order:	†Asaphida
Family:	†Asaphidae
Genus:	†Thysanopyge Kayser 1898
Species
T. argentina Kayser 1898 (type) T. clavijoi Harrington & Leanza 1957 T. latelimbata Harrington & Leanza 1957

Thysanopyge is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived in what is now South America during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.

Argentina

• Acoite Formation
• Las Aguaditas Formation
• Santa Rosita Formation

Bolivia

• Obispo Formation
• San Lorenzo Formation

Further reading

• H. J. Harrington and A. F. Leanza. 1957. Ordovician trilobites of Argentina. Department of Geology, University of Kansas Special Publication. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press 1:1-276
• A. Pribyl and J. Vanek. 1980. Ordovician trilobites of Bolivia. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Prirodnich Ved. Academia Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia 90(2):1-90
• R. Suárez Soruco. 1976. El sistema ordovícico en Bolivia. Revista Tecnica YPF Bolivia 5(2):111-123

Wikidata ☰ Q7799823 entry