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Styginidae
Temporal range: Ordovician-Middle Devonian
Fossil of Scutellum brongniarti from Bohemia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Corynexochida
Suborder: Illaenina
Family: Styginidae
Vogdes 1890

Styginidae is a family of trilobite in the order Corynexochida. Fossils of the various genera are found in marine strata throughout the world, aged from Ordovician up until the family's extinction during the Silurian.

Genera

Kolihapeltis
Meroperix, from the Silurian of Wisconsin
Platyscutellum spiniferum

Styginidae contains the following genera.

References

  1. ^ Paleobiology Database
Taxon identifiers
Styginidae


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