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Odontopleura

Extinct genus of trilobites From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Odontopleura
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Odontopleura is a genus of spinose odontopleurid trilobite in the family Odontopleuridae, and is the type genus of that family and of Odontopleurida. The various species are found in Upper Ordovician to Middle Devonian marine strata throughout the world. The best studied fossils are of the type species, O. ovata, from the Wenlock-aged Liteň Formation in Loděnice, in Bohemia, Czech Republic, and, southeastern Gotland, of Sweden.[3]

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Distribution

Fossils of Odontopleura have been found in:[4]

Devonian

China, Floresta Formation, Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia[1]

Silurian

Canada (Northwest Territories, Quebec), China, the Czech Republic, Poland, United States (Iowa, New York)

Ordovician

United States (Indiana, Ohio, Virginia)

References

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