Cordania

Cordania
Temporal range: Early-Mid Devonian
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Proetida
Family:
Brachymetopidae
Genus:
Cordania

Clarke 1892
Species
  • C. buicki (Australia)
  • C. falcata (USA)
  • C. gasepiou (Colombia)
  • C. junggarensis (China)
  • C. transversus (China)
  • C. wessmani (USA)

Cordania is an extinct genus of trilobites that lived from the Early to Middle Devonian.[1]

Distribution

Fossils of Cordania have been found in Australia, China, Morocco and the United States (Oklahoma).[1] Also in the Emsian-Givetian Floresta Formation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, fossils of Cordania have been found.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Cordania at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Morzadec et al., 2015, p.342

Bibliography

  • Morzadec, Pierre; Mergl, Michal; Villarroel, Carlos; Janvier, Philippe; Racheboeuf, Patrick R. (2015), "Trilobites and inarticulate brachiopods from the Devonian Floresta Formation of Colombia: a review" (PDF), Bulletin of Geosciences, 90: 331–358, doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1515, retrieved 2017-04-04


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