''Josephulus'' is a genus of
trilobites in the order
Phacopida (family
Pliomeridae
Pliomeridae is a family of phacopide trilobites, containing the following genera:
*'' Anapliomera''
*'' Benedettia''
*'' Canningella''
*'' Colobinion''
*'' Coplacoparia''
*'' Cybelopsis''
*'' Ectenonotus''
*'' Encrinurella''
*'' Evropeites''
...
) that existed during the upper
Ordovician in what is now
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
. It was described by Warburg in 1925, and the
type species is ''Josephulus gracilis''. The
type locality was the
Upper Leptaena Limestone.
Available Generic Names for Trilobites
P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.
References
External links
''Josephulus''
at the Paleobiology Database
Pliomeridae
Phacopida genera
Fossil taxa described in 1925
Ordovician trilobites
Fossils of Sweden
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