Weymouthiidae

Weymouthiidae
Temporal range: Botomian/Delamaran (Olenellus- and Eokochaspis-zones)
Morocconus, from Morocco
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita (?)
Order: Agnostida
Suborder: Eodiscida
Family: Weymouthiidae
Kobayashi 1943
Genera[1]
Synonyms[citation needed]
  • Ladadiscinae

The Weymouthiidae[2] are an extinct family of eodiscinid agnostid trilobites. They lived during the late Lower Cambrian and earliest Middle Cambrian (Botomian to Delamaran) in the so-called Olenellus- and Eokochaspis-zones in the former paleocontinents of Laurentia, Avalonia, Gondwana. The Weymouthiidae are all blind and lack free cheeks.

  1. ^ "PBDB Taxon".
  2. ^ 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.