Liobole
Extinct genus of trilobites
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Liobole is an extinct genus of lower Carboniferous proetid trilobite.
| Liobole Temporal range: Visian | |
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| Liobole Glabra | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Proetida |
| Family: | †Proetidae |
| Genus: | †Liobole Richter and Richter, 1949 |
| Species and subspecies | |
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Etymology
Distribution
Liobole is found in the European Culm facies and has been collected from the lower Carboniferous across Europe for example from (Visian) deposits of SW England and (Tournaisian) of Poland and as far east as China.[3]
Taxonomy
Identified as proetid trilobite from the lower Visean Brezina formation by Chlupáč 1966.
