Peltura
Peltura is a genus of trilobites from the Upper Cambrian.[1] The type specimen of Peltura scarabaeoides, the type species of the genus, was discovered in the Alum Shale Formation of Sweden and described by the Swedish naturalist Göran Wahlenberg in 1818.[2] Species of this genus have now been found throughout the Scandinavian and Baltic regions.[1]
Peltura | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Trilobita |
Order: | †Ptychopariida |
Family: | †Olenidae |
Genus: | †Peltura Milne-Edwards, 1840 |
Type species | |
Entomostracites scarabæoides (Wahlenberg, 1818) | |
Species | |
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References
- "Genus Peltura Milne-Edwards, 1840". Paleobiodiversity in Baltoscandia. fossiilid.info. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- "WAHLENBERG (1818)". jsgeology.net. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
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