''Chiozoon'' is a cheirurid phacopid

trilobite Trilobites (; meaning "three-lobed entities") are extinction, extinct marine arthropods that form the class (biology), class Trilobita. One of the earliest groups of arthropods to appear in the fossil record, trilobites were among the most succ ...

that existed during the lower

Silurian The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 23.5 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. The Silurian is the third and shortest period of t ...

of what is now northeastern

Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...

.Lane, P. D. "New trilobites from the Silurian of Northeast Greenland, with a note on a trilobite faunas in pure limestones." Palaeontology 15 (1972): 336-364. It was described by Philip D. Lane in 1972, and the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

is ''Chiozoon cowiei''.Available Generic Names for Trilobites
P. A. Jell & J. M. Adrain.

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''Chiozoon''
at the

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Silurian trilobites of North America Fossil taxa described in 1972 Extinct animals of Canada Paleozoic life of Ontario Cheiruridae Phacopida genera {{Phacopida-stub