Telephina
Appearance
| Telephina Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Proetida |
| Family: | †Telephinidae |
| Genus: | †Telephina Marek, 1952 |
| Species | |
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Telephina is an extinct genus of telephinid trilobite that lived during the Ordovician period.[1]
Palaeobiology
[edit]Life history
[edit]Late in the meraspid stage of ontogeny, the species Telephina problematica, Telephina calandria, and Telephina chingolo underwent a radical metamorphosis.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Telephina". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- ↑ Chatterton, Brian D. E.; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Vaccari, Norberto E.; Waisfeld, Beatriz G. (March 1999). "Ontogenies of some Ordovician Telephinidae from Argentina, and larval patterns in the Proetida (Trilobita)". Journal of Paleontology. 73 (2): 219–239. doi:10.1017/S0022336000027736. ISSN 0022-3360. Retrieved 20 September 2026 – via Cambridge Core.
Categories:
- Ordovician trilobites of North America
- Ordovician trilobites of South America
- Ordovician trilobites of Europe
- Ordovician trilobites of Asia
- Ordovician trilobites of Australia
- Fossils of Argentina
- Fossils of Australia
- Fossils of Canada
- Fossils of China
- Fossils of Ireland
- Fossils of Italy
- Fossils of Kazakhstan
- Fossils of Norway
- Fossils of Russia
- Fossils of Sweden
- Fossils of the United States
- Fossil taxa described in 1952
- Telephinidae
- Proetida genera