Cryptolithus
Extinct genus of trilobites
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Cryptolithus is a genus of extinct epifaunal, suspension-feeding, trinucleid trilobites that lived during the Ordovician period.[2] They were mostly blind.[3] They are found in the United States, Canada, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, France, the Czech Republic, Morocco and Turkey.[4]
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| Cryptolithus fossil, National Museum of Natural History | |
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| Reconstruction of the ventral side of Cryptolithus tessellatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Asaphida |
| Family: | †Trinucleidae |
| Genus: | †Cryptolithus Green, 1832[1] |
Species
Valid species of Cryptolithus include:[5]
- Cryptolithus bellulus (Ulrich, 1879)
- Cryptolithus carimatus
- Cryptolithus fittsi (Ulrich & Whittington)
- Cryptolithus goldfussi (Barrande)
- Cryptolithus inopinatus (Whittard)
- Cryptolithus intertetus (Whittard)
- Cryptolithus lorerainensis (Ruedemann)
- Cryptolithus lorettensis (Foerste, 1924)
- Cryptolithus ornatus (Sternberg)
- Cryptolithus portlockii
- Cryptolithus portlockii girvanensis
- Cryptolithus quadrillatus
- Cryptolithus recurvus (Ulrich, 1919)
- Cryptolithus tessellatus (Green, 1832)
- Cryptolithus ultimus (Barrande)