''Panderia'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
trilobite
Trilobites (; meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the At ...
s in the order
Corynexochida
Corynexochida is an order of trilobite that lived from the Lower Cambrian to the Late Devonian. Like many of the other trilobite orders, Corynexochida contains many species with widespread characteristics.
The middle region of the cephalon (the ...
.
These nektobenthic carnivores lived in the
Ordovician period,
[Sepkoski, Jac]
Sepkoski's Online Genus Database - Trilobita
/ref> from 466.0 to 443.7 Ma.
Species
*''Panderia baltica''
*''Panderia beaumonti'' (Rouault 1847)
*''Panderia derivata''
*''Panderia edita''
*''Panderia erratica''
*''Panderia hadelandica''
*''Panderia insulana''
*''Panderia lerkakensis''
*''Panderia lewisi'' Salter 1867
*''Panderia lubrica''
*''Panderia megalophthalma'' Linnarsson, 1869 (p. 26)
*''Panderia migratoria''
*''Panderia parvula'' (Holm 1882)
*''Panderia ramosa''
*''Panderia triquetra'' Volborth 1863 [
]
Distribution
Fossils of this genus have been found in the Ordovician sediments of Norway, France, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.[
]
References
* Bruton David L., 1968
The trilobite genus Panderia from the Ordovician of Scandinavia and the Baltic areas.
Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 48(1-2): 1-34
External links
GeoWiki
Ordovician trilobites
Trilobites of Europe
Illaenina
Corynexochida genera
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