Damesellidae

Damesellidae
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian-Furongian
Fossil of Damesella paronai, Tianjin Natural History Museum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Odontopleurida
Family: Damesellidae
Kobayashi, 1935
Genera

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Synonyms
  • Drepanuridae
  • Kaolishaniidae

Damesellidae is a family of odontopleurid trilobites found in late Middle to Late Cambrian marine strata, primarily of China. Damesellids are closely related to the odontopleurids of Odontopleuridae, but are not nearly as spinose, nor possess spines as exaggerated as Odontopleuridae. Like Odontopleuridae odontopleurids, damesellids have broad, bar-shaped cranidia with ledge-like borders. Damesellidae may represent transitional forms between more primitive, possibly ancestral ptychopariids and more advanced odontopleurids.

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References

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  1. ^ Hüseyin Özdikmen (2009). "Nomenclatural changes for twenty trilobites genera" (PDF). Munis Entomology and Zoology. 4 (1): 155–171.