Mummaspis Temporal range: late Lower Cambrian (Lower Olenellus-zone)
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Mummaspis macer, (Type specimen), Fruitville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. U.S. National Museum, Catalogue No. 60092 | |
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Family: | "Laudoniidae"
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Subfamily: | "Laudoniinae"
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Genus: | Mummaspis Fritz, 1992
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Mummaspis is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites, with five known species.[1] 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.