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''Igarkiella'' is an
extinct Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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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 ...
containing a single described species ''Igarkiella igarkaensis''. The species is known from fossils dating to 505 to 501 million years ago during the
Cambrian Period 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 Ordovici ...
.Fossilworks ''Igarkiella'' page
/ref> The fossils were described from an outcrop of the Labaz Formations Saami Member along the Kulyumbe River in Krasnoyar, Russia.Fossilworks "Kulyumbe River, unit 9" page
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Cambrian trilobites Anomocaridae Asaphida genera {{asaphida-stub