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Westergaardites

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Trilobita

Suborder
  
Olenina

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Ptychopariida

Family
  
Olenidae

Similar
  
Chancia, Meteoraspis, Angelina, Yunnanocephalus, Palaeolenus

Westergaardites is an Upper Cambrian trilobite that is known from the Eastern Tian Shan (Central Asia). It is related to Triarthrus, but can easily be distinguished from it by an extremely long exoskeleton, anteriorly placed eyes, a thorax of 19 segments with an extremely wide axis, and very narrow pleural regions, pleural spines, and a pygidium with marginal spines.

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Westergaardites Wikipedia