Cryptolithus

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Cryptolithus
Temporal range: Ordovician
Cryptolithus fossil, National Museum of Natural History
Reconstruction of the ventral side of Cryptolithus tessellatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Asaphida
Family: Trinucleidae
Genus: Cryptolithus
Green, 1832[1]

Cryptolithus is a genus of extinct epifaunal, suspension-feeding, trinucleid trilobites that lived during the Ordovician period.[2] They were mostly blind.[3] They are found in the United States, Canada, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, France, the Czech Republic, Morocco and Turkey.[4]

Species

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Valid species of Cryptolithus include:[5]

References

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