Chiozoon

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Chiozoon
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Cheiruridae
Genus: Chiozoon
Lane, 1972

Chiozoon is a cheirurid phacopid trilobite that existed during the lower Silurian of what is now northeastern Greenland. [1] It was described by Philip D. Lane in 1972, and the type species is Chiozoon cowiei. [2]

References

  1. Lane, P. D. "New trilobites from the Silurian of Northeast Greenland, with a note on a trilobite faunas in pure limestones." Palaeontology 15 (1972): 336-364.
  2. Available Generic Names for Trilobites P. A. Jell & J. M. Adrain.