Emuelloidea

Emuelloidea Temporal range: 517  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ late Botomian
Balcoracania dailyi  of the family Emuellidae Lower Cambrian Emu Shale Kangaroo Island, South Australia © Dave Simpson
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	† Artiopoda
Class:	† Trilobita
Order:	† Redlichiida
Suborder:	† Redlichiina
Superfamily:	† Emuelloidea Pocock, 1970
Families
Emuellidae Megapharanaspidae

Emuelloidae are a small superfamily of trilobites, a group of extinct marine arthropods, that lived during the late Lower Cambrian (late Botomian) of the East Gondwana supercontinent, in what are today South-Australia and Antarctica. Emuelloidea can be recognized by having a prothorax consisting of 3 or 6 segments, the most backward one of which is carrying very large trailing spines. Behind it is the so-called opistothorax. There are two families, the Emuellidae (with a prothorax of six segments) and the Megapharanaspididae (with a prothorax of three segments). ^[1]

References

1. Paterson, R.J.; Jago, J.B. (2006). "New trilobites from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte at Big Gully, Kangaroo Island, South Australia". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 32: 43–57. hdl:1959.14/10651. ISSN   0810-8889.