Aspidaeglina

Aspidaeglina is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period,[1] a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 473 to 470 million years ago.[1]

Aspidaeglina
Temporal range: Ordovician (Arenig)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Asaphida
Family: †Cyclopygidae
Genus: †Aspidaeglina
Holub, 1911
Type species
Aspidaeglina miranda
Species
  • A. miranda Holub, 1911
  • A. striata (Lu, 1975)

Distribution
  • A. miranda is known from the Lower Ordovician of the Czech Republic (Arenig, Klabava Formation).[2]
  • A. striata occurs in the Lower Ordovician of China (Pagoda Formation of southwestern Shaanxi).[3]
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References
  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. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
  2. R.C. Moore, ed. (1959). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part O – Arthropoda (Trilobitomorpha).
  3. Zhou Zhiyi; Zhou Zhiqiang (2009). "Ordovician cyclopygid trilobites from the Pagoda Formation of southwestern Shaanxi, China". AAP Memoir. 37: 87–101. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2013.


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