Acadoparadoxides

Acadoparadoxides is an extinct genus of redlichiid trilobite belonging to the family Paradoxididae. These fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivores lived in the Middle Cambrian (abt 500 Ma).

Acadoparadoxides
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian
Acadoparadoxides briareus from Morocco. On display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Redlichiida
Suborder:
Redlichiina
Family:
Paradoxididae
Genus:
Acadoparadoxides

Šnajdr, 1957
Type species
A. sacheri (Barrande, 1852)
Subgenera
  • Acadoparadoxides
  • Baltoparadoxides Šnajdr, 1986[1]
    • A. oelandicus (Sjögren, 1872) (type species) = Paradoxides oelandicus
Synonyms

Eoparadoxides

Selected species

The following species have been described:[2]

  • Acadoparadoxides briareus Geyer, 1993
  • Acadoparadoxides deani Geyer and Vincent 2015
  • Acadoparadoxides harlani Green 1834
  • Acadoparadoxides levisettii Geyer and Vincent 2015
  • Acadoparadoxides mureroensis Sdzuy 1958
  • Acadoparadoxides nobilis Geyer 1998
  • Acadoparadoxides ovatopyge Geyer and Vincent 2015

References
  1. "Subgenus Acadoparadoxides (Baltoparadoxides)". fossiilid.info.
  2. Acadoparadoxides at fossilworks.org


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