Alokistocaridae
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| Elrathia kingii, an Alokistocarid
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Alokistocaridae
Resser, 1939
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- Alokistocare Lorenz, 1906 = Amecephalus, Strotocephalus
- Alokistocarella Resser, 1938
- Amecephalina Poulsen, 1927
- Annamitia Mansuy, 1916
- Arellanella Lochman, 1948
- Bythicheilus Resser, 1939
- Chancia Walcott, 1924
- Chelidonocephalus King, 1937
- Dunderbergia Walcott, 1924
- Ehmania Resser, 1935
- Ehmaniella Resser, 1937 = Anomalocephalus, Clappaspis
- Elrathia Walcott, 1924
- Elrathiella Poulsen, 1927 = Coelaspis, Glassocoryphus
- Elrathina Resser, 1937
- Inglefieldia Poulsen, 1927
- Ithyektyphus Shaw, 1956
- Kistocare Lochman, 1948
- Kochiella Poulsen, 1927
- Kochina Resser, 1935
- Kounamkites Poletaeva & Chernysheva, 1956
- Kujandaspis Ivshin, 1956
- Megadunderbergia Kobayashi, 1938
- Mexicella Lochman, 1948
- Orlovia Walcott & Resser, 1925
- Pachyaspis Resser, 1939
- Parehmania Deiss, 1939 = Mcnairia, Rowia, Thompsonaspis
- Perioura Resser, 1938
- Proveedoria Lochman, 1948
- Ptychoparopsis Hupé, 1953
- Trachycheilus Resser, 1945
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Alokistocaridae is a family of ptychopariid trilobites that lived from the Botomian epoch of the Early Cambrian until the Late Cambrian. Alokistocarids were particle feeders and left small furrows which are occasionally preserved.[1] Their remains are found worldwide. Elrathia kingii, one of the most collected trilobites in the world, is a typical alokistocarid.
- ^ Coppold, Murray and Wayne Powell (2006). A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale, p.54. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation, Field, British Columbia. ISBN 0-9780132-0-4.
