Cordania

Cordania
Temporal range: Early-Mid Devonian
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Proetida
Family: †Brachymetopidae
Genus: †Cordania
Clarke, 1892
Species
  • C. buicki (Australia)
  • C. falcata (USA)
  • C. gasepiou (Colombia)
  • C. junggarensis (China)
  • C. transversus (China)
  • C. wessmani (USA)
A trilobite head in a piece of rocky matrix
A specimen of Cordania wessmani from the Lower Devonian of Oklahoma

Cordania is an extinct genus of trilobites that lived from the Early to Middle Devonian.[1]

Distribution

Fossils of Cordania have been found in Australia,[2] China,[3] Morocco and the United States (Oklahoma).[1] Also in the Emsian-Givetian Floresta Formation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, fossils of Cordania have been found.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Cordania at Fossilworks.org
  2. ↑ Ebach, Malte C.; Edgecombe, Gregory D. (1999-05-01). "The Devonian trilobite Cordania from Australia". Journal of Paleontology. 73 (3): 431–436. ISSN 0022-3360.
  3. ↑ Yang, Xiaoqian; Lv, Ruili; Yu, Zefen; Li, Jianying; Qiao, Min (2022-05-05). "Cordana yunnanensis sp. nov., Isolated from Desertified Rocky Soil in Southwest China". Current Microbiology. 79 (6): 183. doi:10.1007/s00284-022-02871-z. ISSN 0343-8651.
  4. ↑ Morzadec et al., 2015, p.342

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