Wutingaspis

Wutingaspis
Temporal range: Early Botomian
W. malungensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Redlichiida
Family: †Redlichiidae
Subfamily: †Wutingaspinae
Genus: †Wutingaspis
Kobayashi, 1944

Wutingaspis is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the early part of the Botomian stage, which lasted from approximately 524 to 518.5 million years ago. This faunal stage was part of the Cambrian Period.

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
  2. ↑ Kobayashi, T., 1944b: On the Cambrian formations in Yunnan and Haut-Tonkin and the trilobites contained. Miscellaneous notes on the Cambro-Ordovician geology and palaeontology 16. Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography, vol. 19, nos. 1–4, pp. 107–138, pls. 9–10.