Oryctocephalus_indicus

<i>Oryctocephalus indicus</i>

Oryctocephalus indicus

Extinct species of trilobite

Oryctocephalus indicus is a species of corynexochid trilobite from the Cambrian. Its first appearance is proposed for the lower boundary of the Wuliuan, which corresponds to the beginning of the Miaolingian (The other proposal was Ovatoryctocara granulata).[1][2] The species was first described by the British paleontologist Frederick Richard Cowper Reed in 1910 as Zacanthoides indicus.[3] It was transferred to the genus Oryctocephalus by the American paleontologist Charles Elmer Resser in 1938.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    "GSSP Table - Paleozoic Era". Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  2. [2]
    Gozalo, Rodolfo; Álvarez, María Eugenia Dies; Vintaned, José Antonio Gámez; Zhuravlev, Andrey Yu.; Bauluz, Blanca; Subías, Ignacio; Chirivella Martorell, Juan B.; Mayoral, Eduardo; Gursky, Hans-Jürgen; Andrés, José Antonio; Liñán, Eladio (1 December 2011). "Proposal of a reference section and point for the Cambrian Series 2-3 boundary in the Mediterranean subprovince in Murero (NE Spain) and its intercontinental correlation". Geological Journal. 48 (2–3): 142–155. doi:10.1002/gj.1330. S2CID 129084517.
  3. [3]
    Zhao, Yuanlong (2006). "A restudy of Oryctocephalus indicus (Reed, 1910)" (PDF). Progress in Natural Science. 16. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  4. [4]
    "Oryctocephalus indicus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 16 November 2012.

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