''Kozlowskiaspis'' is a genus of
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 At ...
s in the order
Phacopida (family
Calmoniidae), that existed during the lower
Devonian
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in what is now
Bolivia
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. It was described by Branisa and Vanek in 1973, and the
type species
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is ''Kozlowskiapsis superna''. It also contains the species ''K. australis'' and ''K. borealis''. The
type locality was the
Icla Formation.
Available Generic Names for Trilobites
P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.
References
External links
''Kozlowskiaspis''
at the Paleobiology Database
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History
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Calmoniidae
Phacopida genera
Fossil taxa described in 1973
Devonian trilobites of South America
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