Panderia

Panderia Temporal range: Ordovician PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N [1]
Fossil of Panderia beaumonti from Ille-et-Vilaine, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	† Trilobita
Order:	† Corynexochida
Family:	† Panderiidae
Genus:	† Panderia Volborth, 1863

Panderia is a genus of trilobites in the order Corynexochida.

These nektobenthic carnivores lived in the Ordovician period, ^[2] from 466.0 to 443.7 Ma. ^[1]

Species

• Panderia baltica
• Panderia beaumonti (Rouault 1847)
• Panderia derivata
• Panderia edita
• Panderia erratica
• Panderia hadelandica
• Panderia insulana
• Panderia lerkakensis
• Panderia lewisi Salter 1867
• Panderia lubrica
• Panderia megalophthalma Linnarsson, 1869 (p. 26)
• Panderia migratoria
• Panderia parvula (Holm 1882)
• Panderia ramosa
• Panderia triquetra Volborth 1863 ^[1]

Distribution

Fossils of this genus have been found in the Ordovician sediments of Norway, France, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. ^[1]

References

1. The Paleobiology Database
2. Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database - Trilobita

• Bruton David L., 1968: The trilobite genus Panderia from the Ordovician of Scandinavia and the Baltic areas. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 48(1-2): 1-34

External links

• GeoWiki