''Eodindymene'' is a genus of

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 ...

s in the order

Phacopida Phacopida ("lens-face") is an order of trilobites that lived from the Late Cambrian to the Late Devonian. It is made up of a morphologically diverse assemblage of taxa in three related suborders. Characteristics Phacopida had 8 to 19 thoraci ...

, that existed during the upper

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in what is now

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. It was described by Kielan in 1960, 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 ...

in ''Eodindymene pulchra'', which was originally described under the genus '' Dindymene'' by Olin in 1906. The type locality was the Tretaspis Shale Formation in

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.Available Generic Names for Trilobites
P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.

References

External links

''Eodindymene''
at the

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Phacopida genera Fossil taxa described in 1960 Fossils of Sweden Ordovician trilobites Encrinuridae {{Phacopida-stub