''Wagnerispina'' is a lower

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a Geologic time scale, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the ...

proetid

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 ...

Etymology

''Wagnerispina'' was described from material found in

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. The specimen shown is from the same location.

Distribution

''Wagnerispina'' is found across

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in lower carboniferous deposits and has been collected for example from

Viséan The Visean, Viséan or Visian is an age in the ICS geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the second stage of the Mississippian, the lower subsystem of the Carboniferous. The Visean lasted from to Ma. It follows ...

deposits of SW England and the Czech republic.

Taxonomy

Identified as proetid trilobite from the lower Visean (Chadian substage) Coddon Hill formation by Woodward 1902.

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Early Visean trilobites

Lower Carboniferous Trilobites from the UK
Carboniferous animals Proetidae Proetida genera Fossil taxa described in 1977 {{proetida-stub