Chelediscus
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| Chelediscus Temporal range: [1] | |
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| A drawing of a cephalon and pygidium of Chelediscus acifer | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita (?) |
| Order: | †Agnostida |
| Family: | †Weymouthiidae |
| Genus: | †Chelediscus Rushton, 1966 |
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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]

. 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]