Emuellidae Temporal range: Botomian
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Balcoracania dailyi of the family Emuellidae Lower Cambrian Emu Shale Kangaroo Island, South Australia © Dave Simpson | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Trilobita |
Order: | †Redlichiida |
Superfamily: | †Emuelloidea |
Family: | †Emuellidae Pocock, 1970 |
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Emuellidae are a small family of trilobites, a group of extinct marine arthropods, that lived during the late Lower Cambrian (late Botomian) of the East Gondwana supercontinent, in what are today South-Australia and Antarctica.