Acadoparadoxides

Acadoparadoxides Temporal range: Middle Cambrian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Acadoparadoxides briareus from Morocco. On display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	† Artiopoda
Class:	† Trilobita
Order:	† Redlichiida
Family:	† Paradoxididae
Genus:	† Acadoparadoxides Šnajdr, 1957
Type species
Acadoparadoxides sacheri (Barrande, 1852)
Subgenera
Acadoparadoxides A. sacheri (Barrande, 1852) (type species) = Paradoxides sacheri BaltoparadoxidesŠnajdr, 1986 [1] A. oelandicus (Sjögren, 1872) (type species) = Paradoxides oelandicus
Synonyms
Eoparadoxides

Acadoparadoxides is an extinct genus of redlichiid trilobite belonging to the family Paradoxididae. These fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivores lived in the Middle Cambrian (abt 500 Ma).

Selected species

The following species have been described: ^[2]

• Acadoparadoxides briareus Geyer, 1993
• Acadoparadoxides deani Geyer and Vincent 2015
• Acadoparadoxides harlani Green 1834
• Acadoparadoxides levisettii Geyer and Vincent 2015
• Acadoparadoxides mureroensis Sdzuy 1958
• Acadoparadoxides nobilis Geyer 1998
• Acadoparadoxides ovatopyge Geyer and Vincent 2015

References

1. "Subgenus Acadoparadoxides (Baltoparadoxides)". fossiilid.info.
2. "Acadoparadoxides". Paleobiology Database .