Asteropyge
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Asteropyge fossil from Devonian, Iran | |
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Genus: | Asteropyge Hawle & Corda, 1847 |
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Asteropyge is an extinct genus of trilobite. It lived from the end of the Lower Devonian (upper Emsian) into the Middle Devonian (lower and upper Eifelian), in what are today France (Armorican Massif), Germany (Eifel area) and Iran.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Bignon, Arnaud; Crônier, Catherine (2013). "The systematics and phylogeny of the Devonian subfamily Asteropyginae (Trilobita: Phacopida)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (6): 1–32. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.804008. hdl:11336/32076. S2CID 85891013.
- ^ Viersen, Allart P. VAN; Taghon, Peter; Magrean, Benedikt (2019-02-26). "Early Middle Devonian trilobites and events in the Nismes – Vireux-Molhain area, southern border of the Dinant Synclinorium (Belgium, northern France)". Geologica Belgica. 22 (1–2): 7–33. doi:10.20341/gb.2019.001. ISSN 1374-8505.