Cobboldites Temporal range: [1] | |
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drawing of Cobboldites comleyensis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Trilobita (?) |
Order: | † Agnostida |
Family: | † Weymouthiidae |
Genus: | † Cobboldites Kobayashi, 1943 |
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Synonyms | |
Microdiscus comleyensis |
Cobboldites [2] is a genus of eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family Weymouthiidae, order Agnostida. [3] It lived during the Botomian stage, [1] which lasted from approximately 524 to 518.5 million years ago. This faunal stage was part of the Cambrian Period.
Cobboldites comleyensis (Cobbold, 1910) [4] is from the lower Cambrian of Comley Quarry (grid reference SO 482 964 ), Shropshire, England.
Cobboldites itsariensis Geyer, 1988. [5] is from the Lower Cambrian of Morocco.