''Daguinaspis'' is an early

Cambrian The Cambrian ( ) is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 51.95 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran period 538.8 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Ordov ...

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 ...

genus found in

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

. Like the closely related ''Choubertella'' and '' Wolynaspis'', but unlike any other Fallotaspidoidea, it lacks genal spines.

Distribution

Cambrian of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco, 30.4° N, 8.8° W (Daguinaspis trilobite zone, Tazemmourt Section and Tiout Section.G. Geyer. 1994. A new obolellid brachiopod from the Lower Cambrian of Morocco. Journal of Paleontology 68(5):995-1002 Amouslek Formation, Middle Atdabanian (520.0 - 516.0 Ma) )

Ecology

''Daguinaspis'' occurs together with the trilobites ''Marsaisia robauxi'' and '' Resserops bourgini'', and the brachiopod ''Brevipelta chouberti '' (Tazemmourt), and also with the problematic '' Microschedia amphitrite'' (Tiout).

References

Fossils of Morocco Cambrian trilobites Fallotaspidoidea {{redlichiida-stub