Leptochilodiscus

Leptochilodiscus
Temporal range: Botomian (Olenellus-zone)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Agnostida
Suborder:
Eodiscina
Superfamily:
Eodiscoidea
Family:
Weymouthiidae
Genus:
Leptochilodiscus

Rasetti, 1966 [1]
Type species
L. punctulatus Rasetti, 1966
species
  • L. punctulatus Rasetti, 1966
  • Leptochilodiscus succinctus (Bassett et al., 1967)
Synonyms

Kerberodiscus Bassett et al., 1976

Leptochilodiscus Rasetti, 1966 [= Kerberodiscus Bassett et al., 1976] [2] is a genus of Lower Cambrian Eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi (1943), [3] Order Agnostida (Salter, 1864). [4] It lived during the Botomian stage = late Lower Cambrian Stage 4 (upper of two stages subdividing the un-named Series 2); the upper Botomian Stage boundary corresponds to base of both the Middle Cambrian Wuliuan stage and Miaolingian Series.

  1. ^ RASETTI, F. (1966). "New Lower Cambrian trilobite faunule from the Taconic sequence of New York". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 148 (9): 1–52.
  2. ^ BASSETT M. G., OWENS R. M., and RUSHTON A. W. A. 1976. Lower Cambrian fossils from the Hell’s Mouth Grits, St Tudwal’s Peninsula, North Wales. Journal of the Geological Society, 132 (6): 623–644. http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/jgs/article-pdf/132/6/623/4885552/gsjgs.132.6.0623.pdf
  3. ^ KOBAYASHI T. 1943. Brief notes on the Eodiscids 1, their classification with a description of a new species and a new variety, Proceedings of the Imperial Academy, Tokyo, Volume 19, pp. 37-42.
  4. ^ SALTER, J. W. 1864: On some new fossils from the Lingula - flags of Wales. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 20, 233 – 241.