Odontochile

Odontochile
Temporal range: Silurian–Devonian
Odontochile sp., 73mm, collected near Hamar Laghdad, Morocco
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Phacopida
Suborder:
Phacopina
Family:
Dalmanitidae
Genus:
Odontochile

Hawle & Corda, 1847
species
  • O. hausmanni (Brongniart, 1822), (type), = Asaphus hausmanni
  • O. cristata Hawle & Corda, 1847
  • O. maccoyi (Barrande)
  • O. seillouensis
  • O. spiniferum
Synonyms

Hausmannia

Odontochile is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, family Dalmanitidae.[1]

These trilobites were fast-moving low-level epifauna and detritivore. They lived in the Devonian period, from 414 to 391 million years ago.

  1. ^ Struve, W. Suborder Phacopina, p. O471-O472. in Moore, R.C. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part O – Arthropoda (Trilobitomorpha). 1959