Fritzolenellus Temporal range: late Lower Cambrian (Lower Olenellus-zone)
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Fritzolenellus truemani, North-East base of Mumm Peak above Mural Glacier, Alberta, Canada | |
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Family: | "Laudoniidae"
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Subfamily: | "Laudoniinae"
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Genus: | Fritzolenellus[1] Lieberman, 1998
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Fritzolenellus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites, with three known species.[2] 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. Fritzolenellus occurred in parts of the paleocontinent Laurentia in what are now Northwestern Canada, Northwestern Scotland, and North-Greenland.