Analox

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

Rasetti, 1966
species
  • A. bipunctata Rasetti, 1966 (type)[1]

Analox Rasetti, 1966 [2] is a genus of Eodiscinid trilobites belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi T. (1943),[3] Order Agnostida (Salter 1864) [4] It lived during the Botomian stage.[1] It can easily be distinguished from other trilobites by the two furrows that extend forwards and sidewards from the front of the glabella.

  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (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 (No. 9), 1 - 52, 9 pls.
  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.