| Dudleyaspis Temporal range: Middle Silurian-Late Devonian, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | † Trilobita |
| Order: | † Odontopleurida |
| Family: | † Odontopleuridae |
| Genus: | † Dudleyaspis Prantl & Pribyl, 1949 |
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Dudleyaspis (meaning "Dudley shield") is an extinct genus of Lower to Middle Devonian odontopleurid trilobites that lived in a shallow sea that lay between Euramerica and Gondwana. [1] It was named in 1949 by Prantl & Pribyl. [2]
Fossils of Dudleyaspis have been found in the following locations:
- Australia: Bathurst (Jesse Limestone [3] ), Mudgee (Flirtation Hill [4] ) and Murrumbateman (Black Bog Formation – Yarwood Siltstone Member [5] )
- Canada: Northwest Territories (Mackenzie Mountains – Delorme and Whittaker Formations [6] [7] ) and Nunavut (Bailie-Hamilton and Cornwallis Islands – Cape Phillips Formation [8] )
- Czech Republic: Prague (Loc. 5.2 – C. colonus Zone [9] )
- England: Cannock (Shelve District [10] ) and Dudley (Wren's Nest – Much Wenlock Limestone Formation [11] )
- France: Coumiac (Coumiac quarry – Coumiac Formation [12] [13] )
- Sweden: western Gotland (Visby – Rönnklint sea cliff and Kättelviken [1] )
- United States: Illinois (Chicago – Racine Dolomite [14] and Kankakee – Racine Dolomite [14] ), Iowa (Hopkinton Dolomite [15] ), Oklahoma (Anadarko – Henryhouse Formation [16] ) and Wisconsin (Milwaukee – Racine Dolomite [14] )
