Fallotaspis

Fallotaspis
Temporal range: Lower Cambrian (Lower Atdabanian)
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Fallotaspis longa, White Mountain, courtesy Sam Gon III
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Redlichiida
Suborder:
Olenellina
Superfamily:
Fallotaspidoidea
Family:
Fallotaspididae
Genus:
Fallotaspis

Hupé, 1953[1]
Species
  • F. typica Hupé, 1953 (Type)
  • F. antecedens Geyer, 2019[2]
  • F. bondoni (Neltner & Poctey, 1949), synonym Olenellus bondoni
  • F. inexspectatus Geyer, 1996
  • F. ljugneri (Kautsky, 1945)
  • F. longa Hupé, 1953
  • F. longispina Hupé, 1953
  • F. mongolicus Korobov, 1980
  • F. plana Hupé, 1953
  • F. planospinosa Hupé, 1953
  • F. tazemmourtensis Hupé, 1953

Fallotaspis is a genus of redlichiid trilobites found in Early Cambrian-aged strata of the United States and Morocco.

  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 2012-09-17.
  2. ^ Gerd Geyer (2019). "The earliest known West Gondwanan trilobites from the Anti‐Atlas of Morocco, with a revision of the family Bigotinidae Hupe, 1953". Fossils and Strata. 64: 55–154. doi:10.1002/9781119564249.ch6. ISBN 978-1-119-56423-2. S2CID 146691606.