Szechuanella

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Szechuanella
Temporal range: 500–460  Ma
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Szechuanella
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  • S. sp.

Szechuanella is an extinct genus of corynexochid trilobite that lived marine environments from the middle Cambrian to the early Ordovician in what is now China.

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