Birmanites
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| B. ingens from Czech Republic at the National Museum (Prague) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Asaphida |
| Family: | †Asaphidae |
| Genus: | †Birmanites Sheng, 1934 |
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Birmanites is a genus of trilobites in the order Asaphida, family Asaphidae.
They lived in the Ordovician period, from the Tremadocian age until the Lower Ashgillian age (488.3-449.5 million years ago). These arthropods were a low-level epifauna, fast-moving and detritivore.
Distribution
[edit]Ordovician of Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom; Llandeilo of China; Arenigian of Argentina, China.
List
[edit]- Birmanites yunnanensis (China)
References
[edit]- Birmanites at Biolib
- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Trilobita
- Paleobiology Database Archived 2007-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
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Categories:
- Asaphidae
- Asaphida genera
- Prehistoric life of Europe
- Silurian trilobites
- Cambrian trilobites
- Ordovician trilobites of Asia
- Cambrian first appearances
- Silurian extinctions
- Ordovician trilobites of Europe
- Fossils of the Czech Republic
- Letná Formation
- Ordovician trilobites of South America
- Fossils of Argentina
- Tremadocian
- Floian
- Dapingian
- Darriwilian
- Sandbian
- Paleozoic life of Quebec
- Trilobite stubs