Daguinaspis

Daguinaspis
Temporal range: Lower Cambrian (Lower Atdabanian)
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Daguinaspis sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Redlichiida
Suborder:
Olenellina
Superfamily:
Fallotaspidoidea
Family:
Daguinaspididae
Genus:
Daguinaspis

Hupé and Abadie, 1950[1]
Species
  • D. ambroggii Hupé, 1953 (Type)
  • D. subabadiei Geyer, Landing & Heldmaier, 1995

Daguinaspis is an early Cambrian trilobite genus found in Morocco. Like the closely related Choubertella and Wolynaspis, but unlike any other Fallotaspidoidea, it lacks genal spines.

  1. ^ Lieberman, B.S. (2002). "Phylogenetic analysis of some basal early Cambrian Trilobites, the biogeographic origins of the Eutrilobites, and the timing of the Cambrian radiation" (PDF). Journal of Paleontology. 76 (4): 692–708. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0692:paosbe>2.0.co;2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-12. Retrieved 2012-10-04.