Vietnamia

For the country named Vietnamia in Latin language, see Vietnam.

Vietnamia
Temporal range: Late Ordovician
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Phacopida
Family:
Calymenidae
Genus:
Vietnamia

Kobayashi, 1960

Vietnamia is a genus of trilobites. A new species, V. yushanensis, was described from the late Ordovician of China by Dong-Chan Lee in 2011.[1] It is also found in the U.A.E.[2]

  1. ^ Dong-Chan Lee (2013). "Late Ordovician trilobites from the Xiazhen Formation in Zhuzhai, Jiangxi Province, China". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 58 (4): 855–882. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0036.
  2. ^ Fortey, Richard; Heward, Alan Peter; Miller, C. Giles. "Sedimentary facies and trilobite and conodont faunas of the Ordovician Rann Formation, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates". GeoArabia. pp. 127–151. doi:10.2113/geoarabia1604127.