Damesellidae

Damesellidae
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian-Furongian
Neodrepanura premesnili
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Odontopleurida
Family: Damsellidae
Kobayashi, 1935
Genera

See text

Synonyms
  • Drepanuridae
  • Kaolishaniidae

Damesellidae is a family of odontopleurid trilobites found in late Middle to Late Cambrian marine strata, primarily of China. Damesellids are closely related to the odontopleurids of Odontopleuridae, but are not nearly as spinose, nor possess spines as exaggerated as Odontopleuridae. Like Odontopleuridae odontopleurids, damesellids have broad, bar-shaped cranidia with ledge-like borders. Damesellidae may represent transitional forms between more primitive, possibly ancestral ptychopariids and more advanced odontopleurids.

Genera

Genera include

  • ?Adelogonus
  • Bergeronites
  • Blackwelderia
  • Blackwelderioides
  • Chiawangella
  • Cyrtoprora
  • Damesella
  • Damesops
  • Dipentaspis
  • Dipyrgotes
  • Neodrepanura
  • Duamsannella
  • Fengduia
  • Guancenshania
  • ?Hercantyx
  • Histiomona
  • Jiawangaspis
  • Karslanus [1]
  • Liuheaspis
  • Metashantungia
  • Neodamesella
  • Palaeadotes,
  • Paradamesella
  • Parashantungia
  • Pingquania
  • Pionaspis
  • Protaitzehoia
  • Pseudoblackwelderia
  • Shantungia
  • Stephanocare
  • Taihangshania
  • Taitzehoia
  • Teinistion
  • Xintaia
  • Yanshanopyge

References

  1. ↑ Hüseyin Özdikmen (2009). "Nomenclatural changes for twenty trilobites genera" (PDF). Munis Entomology and Zoology. 4 (1): 155–171.


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