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Birmanites

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Trilobita

Family
  
Asaphidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Asaphida

Rank
  
Genus

Birmanites

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Birmanites is a genus of trilobites in the order Asaphida, family Asaphidae.

They lived in the Ordovician period, from the Tremadocian age until the Lower Ashgillian age (488.3-449.5 million years ago). These arthropods were a low-level epifauna, fast-moving and detritivore.

Distribution

Ordovician of Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom; Llandeilo of China; Arenigian of Argentina, China.

References

Birmanites Wikipedia