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Oryctocephalidae

Oryctocephalidae is an extinct family of trilobite in the order Corynexochida. There are more than 20 genera and 60 described species in Oryctocephalidae.

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Oryctocephalidae
Fossil of Changaspis Elongate, a member of Oryctocephalidae.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Corynexochida
Suborder: Corynexochina
Family: Oryctocephalidae
Beecher, 1897

Oryctocephalidae is an extinct family of trilobite in the order Corynexochida. There are more than 20 genera and 60 described species in Oryctocephalidae.1

Genera

These 27 genera belong to the family Oryctocephalidae:

  • Arthricocephalus Bergeron, 1899
  • Changaspis Lee, 1963
  • Cheiruroides Kobayashi, 1935
  • Curvoryctocephalus Zhao & Yuan, 2001
  • Duyunaspis Chien & Lin, 1978
  • Feilongshania Qian & Lin, 1980
  • Goldfieldia Palmer, 1964
  • Hunanocephalus Lee, 1963
  • Kunshanaspis Zhang & Zhou, 1985
  • Metabalangia Qian & Yuan, 1980
  • Metarthricocephalus Zhao & Yuan, 2001
  • Microryctocara Sundberg & McCollum, 1997
  • Oryctocara Walcott, 1908
  • Oryctocephalina Tomashpolskaya, 1961
  • Oryctocephalites Resser, 1939
  • Oryctocephaloides Yuan, 1980
  • Oryctocephalops Lermontova, 1940
  • Oryctocephalus Walcott, 1886
  • Oryctometopus Tomashpol'skaya, 1964
  • Ovatoryctocara Chernysheva, 1962
  • Paleooryctocephalus Repina, 1964
  • Parachangaspis Liu, 1982
  • Protoryctocephalus Chow, 1974
  • Sandoveria Shergold, 1969
  • Shabaella Qian & Sun, 1977
  • Shergoldiella Geyer, 2006
  • Tonkinella Mansuy, 1922
References

References

  1. "Oryctocephalidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-23.