Chelediscus

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Clade:Artiopoda
Order:Agnostida
Chelediscus
Temporal range: Late Botomian
[1]
A drawing of a cephalon and pygidium of Chelediscus acifer
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita (?)
Order: Agnostida
Family: Weymouthiidae
Genus: Chelediscus
Rushton, 1966
Species
  • C. acifer Rushton, 1966 (type)
  • C. chathamensis Rasetti, 1967

Chelediscus[2] is a genus of Eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi T. (1943),[3] Order Agnostida Salter (1864).[4] The Treatise assigns this genus to the Calodiscidae; Cotton and Fortey (2005) [5] however move it to the Weymouthiidae. Chelediscus lived during the later part of the Botomian stage.[1]

Drawing of Chelediscus acifer, enrolled, from the side

. Chelediscus is known from upper lower Cambrian strata in England, Newfoundland, New York State and Russia (Rushton, 1966; Fletcher, 2003;[6] Rasetti, 1967;[7] Jell in Kaesler, 1997;[8]

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