Changaspis

Changaspis is an extinct genus of trilobite that lived during the lower Cambrian in what is now China.

Changaspis
Temporal range:
Changaspis elongata, lower Cambrian, Guizhou province, China
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Corynexochida
Family:
Oryctocephalidae
Subfamily:
Oryctocephalinae
Genus:
Changaspis

Lee in Chien, 1961
Species
  • C. elongata Lee in Chien, 1961 (type) synonyms C. micropyge, C. placenta[1]
  • C. longispina (Lee in Yegorova et al., 1963) synonym Pseudolancastria longispina
  • C. nangaoensis Lu and Chien in Yin and Li, 1978
  • C. transversa Zhou in Zhou et al. 1977

References
  1. McNamara, K.J.; Yu, F.; Zhiyi, Zhou (2006). "Ontogeny and Heterochrony in Oryctocephalid trilobites". Palaeontology. 49 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00525.x.

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