Odontopleura is a genus of spinose odontopleurid trilobite in the family Odontopleuridae, and is the type genus of that family and of Odontopleurida. The various species are found in Upper Ordovician to Middle Devonian marine strata throughout the world. The best studied fossils are of the type species, O. ovata, from the Wenlock-aged Liteň Formation in Loděnice, in Bohemia, Czech Republic, and, southeastern Gotland, of Sweden.[3]
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| O. ovata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Odontopleurida |
| Family: | †Odontopleuridae |
| Genus: | †Odontopleura Emmrich, 1839 |
| Type species | |
| Odontopleura ovata Emmrich, 1839
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Distribution edit
Fossils of Odontopleura have been found in:[4]
- Devonian
China, Floresta Formation, Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia[1]
- Silurian
Canada (Northwest Territories, Quebec), China, the Czech Republic, Poland, United States (Iowa, New York)
- Ordovician
United States (Indiana, Ohio, Virginia)
References edit
- ^ a b Floresta Fauna at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Borowski T. Odontopleura generalandersi - a new Silurian trilobite species of the Odontopleura genus occurring in the north Poland. Curr World Environ 2008;3(2):213-216. [1]
- ^ Calner, Mikael, et al. "The first record of Odontopleura ovata (Trilobita) from Scandinavia: part of a middle Silurian intercontinental shelly benthos mass occurrence." GFF 128.1 (2006): 33-37.
- ^ Odontopleura at Fossilworks.org
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