Liobole

Liobole
Temporal range: 360–341 Ma Tournaisian - Early Viséan
Liobole glabra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Proetida
Family: †Proetidae
Genus: †Liobole
Richter and Richter, 1949
Species
  • Liobole galaxaura Hahn et al., 1996
  • Liobole glabroides (Richter & Richter, 1949)
  • Liobole liebsteinensis Hahn et al., 1996
  • Liobole peregrina Engel & Morris, 1980
  • Liobole massinissa Müller, Hahn & Becker, 2026

Liobole is an extinct genus of lower Carboniferous proetid trilobite.

Etymology

Liobole was described from material found in the Moravian Karst. The species shown is from the lower carboniferous of SW England.

Distribution

Liobole is found in the European Culm facies and has been collected from the lower Carboniferous across Europe from (Viséan) deposits of SW England and (Tournaisian) of Poland as far east as China.Fossils have also been discovered in Morocco.

Taxonomy

Identified as proetid trilobite from the lower Viséan Brezina formation by Chlupáč 1966.

References

  1. ↑ Chlupáč, I. (1966). "The Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous trilobites of The Moravian Karst". Sbor. Geol. Věd, Ř.P. 7: 1–143.
  2. ↑ Owens, R.M. (1995). "An atheloptic trilobite assemblage from the Carboniferous of North Devon". Geological Magazine. 132 (6): 713–728. Bibcode:1995GeoM..132..713O. doi:10.1017/S0016756800018938. S2CID 129158199.
  3. ↑ Hahn, G. (2005). "Kulm trilobites (Lower Carboniferous) from S-China" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 79 (3): 371–375. Bibcode:2005PalZ...79..371H. doi:10.1007/BF02991929. S2CID 128582636.
  4. ↑ Müller, Peter; Hahn, Gerhard; Becker, Ralph Thomas (2026-10-01). "New trilobites from the upper Tournaisian and Viséan (Mississippian) pelagic facies of the eastern Anti-Atlas (southern Morocco)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 318 (2): 123–148. doi:10.1127/njgpa/1328. ISSN 0077-7749.