Ptychaspididae
Ptychaspididae is a family of trilobites, containing the following genera: *'' Alborsella'' *'' Changia'' *'' Eoptychaspis'' *'' Eowuhuia'' *''Euptychaspis ''Murmur'' is a genus of placoderm. The type species is ''Murmur arctatum''. It was described from a fossil found at Beartooth Butte Beartooth Butte () is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The peak is located in the ...'' *'' Idiomesus'' *'' Kathleenella'' *'' Keithia'' *'' Keithiella'' *'' Macronoda'' *'' Plectrella'' *'' Proricephalus'' *'' Ptychaspis'' *'' Saukioides'' *'' Sunwaptia'' *'' Wilcoxaspis'' References Dikelokephaloidea Trilobite families {{asaphida-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Trilobite
Trilobites (; meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the Atdabanian stage of the Early Cambrian period () and they flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic before slipping into a long decline, when, during the Devonian, all trilobite orders except the Proetida died out. The last extant trilobites finally disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian about 252 million years ago. Trilobites were among the most successful of all early animals, existing in oceans for almost 270 million years, with over 22,000 species having been described. By the time trilobites first appeared in the fossil record, they were already highly diversified and geographically dispersed. Because trilobites had wide diversity and an easily fossilized exoskeleton, they left an extensive fossil record. Th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |