Meniscopsia is a genus of trilobite known from mid-Cambrian Lagerstätten of the western United States. The sediment-filled guts and the digestive glands of some specimens are preserved, indicating a predatory habit.[1]

Meniscopsia
Temporal range: Mid Cambrian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Ptychopariida
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Meniscopsia
Species:
M. beebi
Binomial name
Meniscopsia beebi
Robison & Babcock 2011

References

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  1. ^ Robison, Richard A. & Loren E. Babcock. (2011). "Systematics, paleobiology, and taphonomy of some exceptionally preserved trilobites from Cambrian Lagerstätten of Utah". Paleontological Contributions. 5: 1–47.