Bojoscutellum

Bojoscutellum Temporal range: Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Bojoscutellum paliferum from Koněprusy, Czech Republic at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	† Artiopoda
Class:	† Trilobita
Order:	† Corynexochida
Family:	† Styginidae
Genus:	† Bojoscutellum Šnajdr, 1958
Synonyms
Holomeris Hawle & Corda, 1847

Bojoscutellum is a genus of trilobites in the order Corynexochida family Styginidae. These trilobites were nektobenthic carnivores that lived in the Devonian period in the Eifelian age (395 million years ago).

Distribution

Devonian of the Czech Republic and Morocco.

Species

• Bojoscutellum angusticeps † (Barrande, 1852)
• Bojoscutellum conspersum † (Prantl, 1949)
• Bojoscutellum crassicostatum † Šnajdr, 1960
• Bojoscutellum havliceki † (Vaněk, 1970)
• Bojoscutellum intermixtus † (Hawle et Corda, 1847)
• Bojoscutellum ivanense † (Barrande, 1852)
• Bojoscutellum koneprusiense † Šnajdr, 1960
• Bojoscutellum meridianum † (Barrois, 1886)
• Bojoscutellum paliferum † (Beyrich, 1845)
• Bojoscutellum pseudopaliferum † Šnajdr, 1960
• Bojoscutellum sieberi † (Hawle et Corda, 1847)
• Bojoscutellum tjazovae † Maksimova, 1979
• Bojoscutellum transversum † (Hawle et Corda, 1847)
• Bojoscutellum uralicum † Maksimova, 1979

Gallery

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  Schematic Trilobite Bojoscutellum paliferum (Beyrich, 1845). A) cephalon B) hypostome C) pygidium D) width of pygidium

References

• Biolib
• Paleobiology Database Archived 2007-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Trilobita
• Genus Bojoscutellum at Bvi.rusf.ru

• Paleontology portal