Eocheirurus

Eocheirurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Phacopida
Family: †Cheiruridae
Genus: †Eocheiurus
Rozova, 1960

Eocheiurus is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, that existed during the upper Cambrian in what is now Russia. It was described by Rozova in 1960, and the type species is Eocheirurus salairicus. The species epithet is derived from the name of the town, Salair, in which the type locality, the Tolstochikhin Formation, is located.[1]

References

  1. ^ Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.


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