Ovatoryctocara granulata Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Trilobita |
Order: | † Corynexochida |
Family: | † Oryctocephalidae |
Genus: | † Ovatoryctocara |
Species: | †O. granulata
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Binomial name | |
†Ovatoryctocara granulata Tchernysheva, 1962
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Ovatoryctocara granulata is a species of corynexochid trilobite from the Cambrian. Its first appearance is one of the proposals for the base of Wuliuan (The other proposal having been Oryctocephalus indicus). [1] The species was first formally described by the Russian paleontologist N.Ye. Tchernysheva in 1962. [2]
Ovatoryctocara granulata appears close to the base of the Ovatoryctocara trilobite zone and can be found up to the Kounamkites zone. [2]