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The Middle Cambrian eodiscoid trilobite Dawsonia oelandica (Westergård, 1936)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Niklas Axheimer*
Affiliation:
GeoBiosphere Science Centre, Department of Geology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden,

Extract

The eodiscina comprises small, isopygous trilobites with either two or three thoracic segments. Small eyes may be present, but several genera and species lack visual organs. Eodiscoids are characteristic elements of many Cambrian faunas and are important for correlations of upper Lower Cambrian and lower Middle Cambrian strata (e.g., Robison et al., 1977; Ahlberg and Bergström, 1993; Geyer and Shergold, 2000; Fletcher, 2003).

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