Dipleura

For the hexapod order, see Diplura.
Dipleura
Temporal range: Ordovician–Middle Devonian
Fossil of Dipleura dekayi from United States, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Homalonotidae
Genus: Dipleura
Green, 1832

Dipleura is a trilobite in the order Phacopida.

It was described by Green in 1832, and the type species is Dipleura dekayi. The type locality was in the Hamilton Group in New York.[1]

These fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivores lived during the middle Devonian and Ordovician periods from 460.9 to 383.7 Ma. [2]

Distribution

Fossils of this genus have been found in the Devonian of France, Libya and United States, as well as in the Ordovician of United States.

References

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