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Eldredgeia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Suborder
  
Phacopina

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Phacopida

Class
  
Trilobita

Family
  
Calmoniidae

Rank
  
Genus

Eldredgeia

Similar
  
Viaphacops, Phacopida, Dipleura, Paralejurus, Aulacopleura

Eldredgeia is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, suborder Phacopina, family Calmoniidae. This genus comes from the Devonian of South America and South Africa, usually found in nodules. The trilobite Eldredgeia venusta, from Bolivia, is the most common South American trilobite on today's fossil market, and even then it is not all that common. This genus has a spiny pygidium and usually the eye facets are well preserved.

Species

  • Eldredgeia venusta from the Sicasica Formation, La Paz Department, Bolivia (holotype). Also known from the Upper Member of the Belén Formation, La Paz Department, and the Pimenteira Formation Givetian
  • Eldredgeia cf. E. venusta from South Africa. Eifelian.
  • Eldredgeia paituna (Hartt and Rathbun 1875) from the Erere Sandstone, Para, Brazil. Eifelian.
  • Eldredgeia eocryphaeus, from the Lower Member of the Belén Formation, Scaphiocoelia

    • Assemblage Zone, Tikani, Estacion de Bombeo, Sicasica, La Paz Department (holotype). Also collected from the Gamoneda Formation, Cerro Picacho, 17 km S of Tarija, Tarija Department. Late Lochkovian to early Pragian.

    References

    Eldredgeia Wikipedia
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