Cordania

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Cordania
Temporal range: Early-Mid Devonian
~416–392  Ma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
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]

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Distribution

Fossils of Cordania have been found in Australia,[ citation needed ] China,[ citation needed ] 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. 1 2 Cordania at Fossilworks.org
  2. Morzadec et al., 2015, p.342

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