Wanneria

Wanneria
Temporal range: late Lower Cambrian (middle Upper Olenellus-zone)
524–518.5 Ma
A Wanneria walcottana negative imprint, from the Kinzers Shale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Redlichiida
Suborder:
Olenellina
Superfamily:
Olenelloidea
Family:
“Wanneriidae”
Subfamily:
“Wanneriinae”
Genus:
†Wanneria

Walcott, 1910
Binomial name
†Wanneria walcottana
(Wanner, 1901)
Other species
  • †W. cranbrookense Webster in Webster & Caron, 2024[1]
Synonyms
  • Olenellus (Holmia) walcottanus[2]

Wanneria is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the later part of the Botomian stage,[3] which lasted from approximately 524 to 518.5 million years ago. This faunal stage was part of the Cambrian Period.[3] W. walcottana and W. cranbrookense are the only known species in this genus.[1]

  1. ^ a b Webster, M.; Caron, J.-B. (2024). "Trilobites of the Cranbrook Lagerstätte (Eager Formation, Cambrian Stage 4), British Columbia". Journal of Paleontology: 1–44. doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.89.
  2. ^ Lieberman, B.S. (1999). "Systematic Revision of the Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 45.
  3. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-12.