Wagnerispina

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Wagnerispina
Temporal range: Visean Viséan
File:Wagnerispina AAScaife.jpg
Wagnerispina coddonensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Proetida
Family: Proetidae
Genus: Wagnerispina
Gandl, 1977
Species and subspecies
  • Wagnerispina coddonensis Owens and Tilsley, 1995

Wagnerispina is a lower Carboniferous proetid trilobite.

Etymology

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Wagnerispina was described from material found in England.[1] The specimen shown is from the same location.[2]

Distribution

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Wagnerispina is found across Europe in lower carboniferous deposits and has been collected for example from Viséan deposits of SW England and the Czech republic.

Taxonomy

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Identified as proetid trilobite from the lower Visean (Chadian substage) Coddon Hill formation by Woodward 1902.

References

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