Bolboparia

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Bolboparia
Temporal range: Botomian (Olenellus-zone)
Bolboparia superba,
top cephalon dorsal view,
bottom cephalon oblique view
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita (?)
Order: Agnostida
Family: Weymouthiidae
Genus: Bolboparia
Rasetti, 1966
Species
  • B. superba Rasetti, 1966 (type)
  • B. canadensis Rasetti, 1966
  • B. elongata Rasetti, 1966

Bolboparia is an extinct genus of eodiscinid agnostid trilobites. It lived during the late Lower Cambrian in what today Canada and the United States.

A cladogram showing the relationship between several species of the genera Acidiscus, Bolboparia and Stigmadiscus[1][2]

Bolboparia is most closely related to Acidiscus and slightly more distantly to Stigmadiscus.

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