This article is about the trilobite genus. For the catfish genus, see Phractura.
Peltura
Temporal range: Upper Cambrian
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Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
†Trilobita
Order:
†Ptychopariida
Family:
†Olenidae
Genus:
†Peltura Milne-Edwards, 1840
Type species
†Entomostracites scarabaeoides
Wahlenberg, 1818
Species
†Peltura acutidens
†Peltura minor
†Peltura paradoxa
†Peltura scarabaeoides
Peltura is a genus of trilobites from the Upper Cambrian.[1] The type specimen of Peltura scarabaeoides, the type species of the genus, was discovered in the Alum Shale Formation of Sweden and described by the Swedish naturalist Göran Wahlenberg in 1818.[2] Species of this genus have now been found throughout the Scandinavian and Baltic regions.[1]
^ ab"Genus Peltura Milne-Edwards, 1840". Paleobiodiversity in Baltoscandia. fossiilid.info. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
^"WAHLENBERG (1818)". jsgeology.net. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
Peltura is a genus of trilobites from the Upper Cambrian. The type specimen of Peltura scarabaeoides, the type species of the genus, was discovered in...
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