Thysanopyge Explained

Thysanopyge is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived in what is now South America during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.^[1]

Distribution

Fossils of Thysanopyge have been found in:^[2]

Argentina

• Acoite Formation
• Las Aguaditas Formation
• Santa Rosita Formation

Bolivia

• Obispo Formation
• San Lorenzo Formation

Further reading

• H. J. Harrington and A. F. Leanza. 1957. Ordovician trilobites of Argentina. Department of Geology, University of Kansas Special Publication. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press 1:1-276
• A. Pribyl and J. Vanek. 1980. Ordovician trilobites of Bolivia. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Prirodnich Ved. Academia Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia 90(2):1-90
• R. Suárez Soruco. 1976. El sistema ordovícico en Bolivia. Revista Tecnica YPF Bolivia 5(2):111-123

Notes and References

1. Sepkoski. Jack. Jack Sepkoski . A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry). Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363. 1–560. 2002. 2008-01-12 .
2. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=20214 Thysanopyge