Globampyx
Globampyx is an extinct genus raphiophorid trilobites. It lived during the later part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period,[1] approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.[1] Species of the genus are known from Canada (southeastern British Columbia), Norway (Svalbard) and Sweden.
Globampyx | |
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G. trinucleoides | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Trilobita |
Order: | †Asaphida |
Family: | †Raphiophoridae |
Genus: | †Globampyx Fortey, 1975 |
Species | |
Distribution
- G. sinalae is known from the Middle Ordovician of Canada (Orthidiella brachiopod zone, Glenogle Shales Formation, North White River Section, British Columbia, 471.8-468.1 Ma)
- G. trinucleoides is known from the Middle Ordovician of Svalbard (Psephosthenaspis microspinosa small shelly zone, Olenidsletta Member, Valhallfonna Formation, Ny friesland, 471.8-457.5 Ma)
Description
The headshield (or cephalon) of Globampyx is densely covered with very small granules. The central raised area of the cephalon (or glabella) has an inverted flask-shape. It lacks the rapier-like glabellar spine of many other raphiophorids, but only has a tubercle. The thorax has five segments. The short but wide triangular pygidium, with a rather low axis (or rhachis) of up to six indistinct rings that reaches the faint border furrow.[2]
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References
- Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on September 5, 2006. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- Fortey, R.A. (1975). The Ordovician Trilobites of Spitsbergen [II. Asaphidae, Nileidae, Raphiophoridae and Telephinidae of the Valhallfonna Formation]. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter. 162. Oslo: Norsk Polarinstitutt.
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