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) PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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]

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.