Panderia
Extinct genus of trilobites
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Panderia is a genus of trilobites in the order Corynexochida.
| Panderia Temporal range: [1] | |
|---|---|
| Fossil of Panderia beaumonti from Ille-et-Vilaine, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Corynexochida |
| Family: | †Panderiidae |
| Genus: | †Panderia Volborth, 1863 |
These nektobenthic carnivores lived in the Ordovician period,[2] from 466.0 to 443.7 Ma.[1]
Species
- Panderia baltica
- Panderia beaumonti (Rouault 1847)
- Panderia derivata
- Panderia edita
- Panderia erratica
- Panderia hadelandica
- Panderia insulana
- Panderia lerkakensis
- Panderia lewisi Salter 1867
- Panderia lubrica
- Panderia megalophthalma Linnarsson, 1869 (p. 26)
- Panderia migratoria
- Panderia parvula (Holm 1882)
- Panderia ramosa
- Panderia triquetra Volborth 1863 [1]
Distribution
Fossils of this genus have been found in the Ordovician sediments of Norway, France, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.[1]