Gerastos

Gerastos
Temporal range: Early-Middle Devonian
Gerastos tuberculatus from Morocco
Gerastos sp. from Morocco
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Proetida
Family: †Proetidae
Genus: †Gerastos
Goldfuss, 1843
Species
  • G. granulosus Goldfuss, 1843
  • G. kesselaeri Van Viersen, Taghon & Magrean, 2019[1]
  • G. silvicultrix Van Viersen, Taghon & Magrean, 2019[1]
  • G. tuberculatus marocensis Chatterton et al., 2006

Gerastos is a genus of proetid trilobite in the family Proetidae that lived between the Pragian and Eifelian of the Lower-Middle Devonian, spanning approximately 21 million years.[2]

It was described by Goldfuss in 1843.[2]

  1. ^ a b Allart P. van Viersen; Peter Taghon; Benedikt Magrean (2019). "Early Middle Devonian trilobites and events in the Nismes – Vireux-Molhain area, southern border of the Dinant Synclinorium (Belgium, northern France)". Geologica Belgica. 22 (1–2): 7–33. doi:10.20341/gb.2019.001.
  2. ^ a b "Fossilworks: Hollardops". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.