Calodiscidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: †Trilobitomorpha
Classis: †Trilobita
Ordo: †Agnostida
Subordo: †Eodiscina
Superfamilia: †Eodiscoidea

Familia: † Calodiscidae
Genera: Calodiscus – Chelediscus – Korobovia – Neocobboldia – Pseudocobboldia – Sinodiscus
Name

Calodiscidae Kobayashi 1943
References
Cederström, P., Ahlberg, P., Clarkson, E., Nilsson, C., & Axheimer, N., 2009 "The lower Cambrian eodiscoid trilobite Calodiscus lobatus from Sweden: morphology, ontogeny and distribution" Palaeontology 52(3):491 - 539

The Calodiscidae Kobayashi, 1943 [nom. transl. Öpik, 1975 ex Calodiscinae Kobayashi, 1943] are a family of trilobites belonging to the order Agnostida that lived during the Lower Cambrian (Botomian and Toyonian). They are small or very small, and have a thorax of two or three segments. The Calodiscidae includes five genera (see box).
Taxonomy

The probable ancestors of the Calodiscidae are among the Tsunydiscidae. The Calodiscidae had no descendants.[3]
Description

Like all Agnostida, the Calodiscidae are diminutive and the headshield (or cephalon) and tailshield (or pygidium) are of approximately the same size (or isopygous) and outline. The central raised area of the cephalon (or glabella) has parallel sides or tapers forward, the front being rounded and expanded, and may be divided by transverse glabellar furrows. The occipital ring is defined by a complete transverse furrow and is neither spinose nor expanded. When present, the eye lobes are short and prominent. The thorax is only known in Chelediscus (two segments) and Sinodiscus (three segments). The pygidium has a wide, tapering axis of less than six segments.[2]
References

KOBAYASHI, T. 1943. Brief notes on the eodiscids 1, their classification with a description of a new species and a new variety. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy, Tokyo, 19, 37 - 42.
WHITTINGTON, H. B. (1997). Volume 1 – Trilobita – Introduction, Order Agnostida, Order Redlichiida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Vol. Part O, Revised. pp. 390–392.
JELL, P. A. (1975). "Australian Middle Cambrian Eodiscoids with a review of the superfamily". Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 150: 1–97. cited in WHITTINGTON, H. B. (1997). Volume 1 – Trilobita – Introduction, Order Agnostida, Order Redlichiida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Vol. Part O, Revised. pp. 348–349.