Ehmaniella

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Clade:Artiopoda
Class:Trilobita
Order:Ptychopariida
Ehmaniella
Temporal range: Burgess Shale
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Ptychopariida
Family: Alokistocaridae
Genus: Ehmaniella
Resser, 1937

Ehmaniella is a genus of trilobite known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 392 specimens of Ehmaniella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.74% of the community.[1]

Ehmaniella's major characteristics are a wide cranidium, heavy eye ridges, longitudinal striae on the pre-glabellar area, and a small pygidium with few segments.[2]

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