Cheirurus
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| Cheirurus Temporal range:
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| File:Cheirurus NMNH.jpg | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Phacopida |
| Family: | †Cheiruridae |
| Genus: | †Cheirurus Beyrich, 1845 |
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Cheirurus (from Greek χείρ, cheir meaning "hand" and ουρά, oura meaning "tail") is a genus of phacopid trilobites that lived from the Ordovician to the Devonian.[1][2] Its remains have been found in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. Cheirurus is the type genus of Cheiruridae.
References
[edit | edit source]Further reading
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- Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey
External links
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Categories:
- Cheiruridae
- Phacopida genera
- Ordovician trilobites
- Silurian trilobites
- Devonian trilobites
- Trilobites of Africa
- Trilobites of Asia
- Trilobites of Oceania
- Trilobites of Europe
- Trilobites of North America
- Fossil taxa described in 1845
- Middle Devonian genus extinctions
- Paleozoic life of Ontario
- Paleozoic life of Quebec
- Trilobite stubs