Eodiscidae Temporal range:
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Pagetia taijiangensis, 6mm, from Kaili, Guizhou, China, Middle Cambrian | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Trilobita (?) |
Order: | †Agnostida |
Superfamily: | †Eodiscoidea |
Family: | †Eodiscidae Raymond, 1913 |
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Eodiscidae is a family of agnostid trilobites that lived during the final Lower Cambrian (late Toyonian) and the Middle Cambrian. They are small or very small, and have a thorax of two or three segments. Eodiscidae includes nine genera (see box).