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Liobole

Liobole is an extinct genus of lower Carboniferous proetid trilobite.

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Length
207 w
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Source
Liobole
Temporal range: Visian
Liobole glabra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Proetida
Family: Proetidae
Genus: Liobole
Richter and Richter, 1949
Species
  • Liobole galaxaura Hahn et al., 1996
  • Liobole glabroides (Richter & Richter, 1949)
  • Liobole liebsteinensis Hahn et al., 1996
  • Liobole peregrina Engel & Morris, 1980

Liobole is an extinct genus of lower Carboniferous proetid trilobite.

Etymology

Liobole was described from material found in the Moravian Karst.1 The species shown is from the lower carboniferous of SW England.2

Distribution

Liobole is found in the European Culm facies and has been collected from the lower Carboniferous across Europe for example from (Visian) deposits of SW England and (Tournaisian) of Poland and as far east as China.3

Taxonomy

Identified as proetid trilobite from the lower Visean Brezina formation by Chlupáč 1966.

References

References

  1. Chlupáč, I. (1966). "The Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous trilobites of The Moravian Karst". Sbor. Geol. Věd, Ř.P. 7: 1–143.
  2. Owens, R.M. (1995). "An atheloptic trilobite assemblage from the Carboniferous of North Devon". Geological Magazine. 132 (6): 713–728. Bibcode:1995GeoM..132..713O. doi:10.1017/S0016756800018938. S2CID 129158199.
  3. Hahn, G. (2005). "Kulm trilobites (Lower Carboniferous) from S-China" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 79 (3): 371–375. Bibcode:2005PalZ...79..371H. doi:10.1007/BF02991929. S2CID 128582636.
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