Oodiscus

Oodiscus
Temporal range: Botomian
(Olenellus-zone)
a drawing of Oodiscus subgranulatus, cephalon and pygidium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Agnostida
Family:
Weymouthiidae
Genus:
Oodiscus

Rasetti, 1966
species
  • O. subgranulatus Rasetti, 1966 (Type)[1]
  • O. binodosus Rasetti, 1966
  • O. longifrons Rasetti, 1966[2][3]

Oodiscus is an extinct genus of small size (about 2 centimetres (0.79 in)) trilobite, with three known species. It lived during the Toyonian in what are now Canada and the USA.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Treatise was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Global Names Index. "Oodiscus". Retrieved 22 January 2012.
  3. ^ Rasetti, Franco (1966). "New Lower Cambrian trilobite faunule from the Taconic sequence of New York". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 148 (9): 1–52.