Acrodirotes

Acrodirotes
Temporal range: Dresbachian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Ptychopariida
Family: †Acrocephalitidae
Genus: †Acrodirotes
Öpik, 1967[2]

Acrodirotes is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ Taylor, Michael E. "The Mindyallan Fauna of North-Western Queensland." (1968): 1319-1321.