Dolichometopidae Explained

Dolichometopidae is a family of corynexochid trilobites that lived in the Cambrian, from the lower Botomian to the Dresbachian.^[1] It contains the following genera:^[2]

• Aegunaspis
• Amphoton
• Anoria
• Asperocare
• Athabaskia
• Athabaskiella
• Atypicus
• Basanellus
• Bathyuriscidella
• Bathyuriscus
• Borovikovia
• Centonella
• Chilometopus
• Chilonorria
• Clavaspidella
• Corynexochides
• Deiradonyx
• Dolicholeptus
• Dolichometopsis
• Dolichometopus
• Drozdoviella
• Erratobalticus
• Ezhuangia
• Fuchouia
• Glossopleura
• ?Granularaspis
• Guraspis
• ?Hanburia
• Hemirhodon
• Horonastes
• Itydeois
• Kannoriella
• Klotziella
• Lianhuashania
• Mendospidella
• Neopoliellina
• Parapoliella
• Poliella
• Poliellaspidella
• Poliellaspis
• Poliellina
• Politinella
• Polypleuraspis
• Prosymphysurus
• Pseudamphoton
• Ptannigania
• Saimixiella
• Sestrostega
• Shanghaia
• Sinijanella
• Suvorovaaspis
• Undillia
• Zhenpingaspis

Notes and References

1. Book: J. William Schopf & Cornelis Klein . 1992 . The Proterozoic biosphere: a multidisciplinary study . . 978-0-521-36615-1 . Taxonomy and stratigraphic ranges of animal families in the Vendian and Cambrian: data and analytical results for Section 11.4 . J. John Sepkoski Jr. . 1171–1184 . https://books.google.com/books?id=jMPfQoFNr-IC&pg=PA1176.
2. Web site: Order Corynexochida . S. M. Gon III . November 17, 2010.