Chiozoon

Chiozoon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Phacopida
Family: †Cheiruridae
Genus: †
Lane, 1972

Chiozoon is a cheirurid phacopid trilobite that existed during the lower Silurian of what is now northeastern Greenland.[1] It was described by Philip D. Lane in 1972, and the type species is Chiozoon cowiei.[2]

References

  1. ^ Lane, P. D. "New trilobites from the Silurian of Northeast Greenland, with a note on a trilobite faunas in pure limestones." Palaeontology 15 (1972): 336-364.
  2. ^ Available Generic Names for Trilobites P. A. Jell & J. M. Adrain.


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