Repinaella

Repinaella is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the late Atdabanian stage.

Repinaella
Temporal range: Lower Cambrian (Atdabanian)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Redlichiida
Suborder:
Olenellina
Superfamily:
”Fallotaspidoidea”
Genus:
Repinaella

Geyer, 1996[1]
Species
  • R. siberica (Repina in Khomentovskii and Repina, 1965) (Type)
Synonyms

Fallotaspis siberica
Repinella siberica

Distribution
  • Repinaella siberica has been found in the Lower Cambrian of Siberia (Pestrotsvet Formation, Lena River).[2]
  • cf. Repinaella sp., the first trilobite to appear in Laurentia, has been reported from the Lower Cambrian of Nevada (Northern Clayton Ridge; Andrew Mountain Member of the Montezuma Range, Campito Formation). The occurrence of cf. Repinaella is approximately correlative with the earliest trilobites in Siberia and western Gondwana.[2]

Taxonomy

Within the "Fallotaspidoidea" superfamily Repinaella siberia is closest to the common ancestor with the other Olenellina, particularly Pseudojudomia egregia, and the common characters of these two species were probably shared with the common ancestor of all trilobites.[3]

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References
  1. Jell, P.A.; Adrain, J.M. (2002). "Available generic names for trilobites" (PDF). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 48 (2): 331–553. ISSN 0079-8835.
  2. Hollingsworth, J.S. (2005). "The earliest occurrence of trilobites and brachiopods in the Cambrian of Laurentia". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 220 (1–2): 153–165. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.08.008. Archived from the original on 2014-06-06.
  3. Lieberman, B.S. (2002). Phylogenetic analysis of some basal early Cambrian Trilobites, the biogeographic origins of the Eutrilobites, and the timing of the Cambrian radiation. Journal of Paleontology. 76. pp. 692–708. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0692:paosbe>2.0.co;2. ISBN 9780444520654.


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