Acimetopus

Acimetopus
Temporal range: Botomian (Olenellus-zone)
Acimetopus bilobatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Agnostida
Family:
Weymouthiidae
Genus:
Acimetopus

Rasetti, 1966
Type species
Acimetopus bilobatus
Rasetti, 1966 [1]

Acimetopus Rasetti, 1966,[2] is a genus of Eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi (1943),[3] Order Agnostida Salter (1864).[4] It lived during the Botomian stage.[1] = late Lower Cambrian Stage 4 (upper of two stages subdividing the un-named Series 2); the upper Botomian boundary corresponds to base of the Middle Cambrian, Miaolingian Series and Wuliuan stage.

  1. ^ a b SEPKOSKI, J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 5 September 2006. Retrieved 12 January 2008.
  2. ^ RASETTI, F., 1966. New Lower Cambrian trilobite faunule from the Taconic sequence of New York. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 148, 1-52.
  3. ^ KOBAYASHI T. 1943. Brief notes on the Eodiscids 1, their classification with a description of a new species and a new variety. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy, Tokyo, Volume 19, pp. 37-42.
  4. ^ SALTER, J. W. 1864: On some new fossils from the Lingula-flags of Wales. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 20, 233–241.