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Mesonacinae

The Mesonacinae comprise an extinct subfamily of trilobites that lived during the Botomian, found in North-America, Greenland and North-Western Scotland. The two genera in this subfamily are Mesonacis and Mesolenellus.

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Mesonacinae
Temporal range: Botomian
Mesonacis vermontanus, late Lower Cambrian, Australia, Courtesy of Sam Gon III.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Redlichiida
Family: Olenellidae
Subfamily: Mesonacinae
Walcott, 1890
Genera

The Mesonacinae comprise an extinct subfamily of trilobites that lived during the Botomian, found in North-America, Greenland and North-Western Scotland. The two genera in this subfamily are Mesonacis and Mesolenellus.1

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References

  1. Lieberman, B.S. (1999). "Systematic Revision of the Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 45. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
  2. Palmer, A.R.; Repina, L.N. (1993), "Through a Glass Darkly: Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Biostratigraphy of the Olenellina", The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, 3: 1–35
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