Paradoxididae
Encyclopedia
Paradoxididaeis a family
of trilobite
s, containing the following genera:
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of trilobite
Trilobite
Trilobites are a well-known fossil group of extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the Atdabanian stage of the Early Cambrian period , and they flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before...
s, containing the following genera:
- Acadoparadoxides
- Anabaraceps
- Anabaraspis
- Bajanaspis
- Baltoparadoxides
- HydrocephalusHydrocephalus (trilobite)Hydrocephalus is an extinct genus of redlichiid trilobite that was very common during the Cambrian of Eurasia and North America. It lived around 536-510 mya. This trilobite is 15 cm long and more widely built than others of the time. In comparison to other members of its family, its glabellum...
- ParadoxidesParadoxidesParadoxides was a genus of relatively large trilobites found throughout the world during the Mid Cambrian period ....
- Phanoptes
- Plutonides
- Primoriella
- Schagonaria
- Schoriina