Coronocephalus

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: Phacopida
Subordo: Cheirurina
Superfamilia: Cheiruroidea

Familia: Encrinuridae
Genus: †Coronocephalus
Species: †C. changningensis – †C. elegans – †C. gauluoensis – †C. kobayashii – †C. rongxiensis – †C. tenuisulcatus
Name

Coronocephalus Grabau, 1924

Synonyms:

Coronocephalina Wu in Zhou et al., 1977
Senticucullus Xia in W. Zhang, 1974

Distribution

Australia, People's Republic of China

Temporal range: Ordovician - Silurian
References

Grabau A.W., 1924. Supplement A. Additions to the Paleozoic stratigraphy of China and adjacent regions, Silurian System. In Stratigraphy of China, Vol. 1, pp. 438–440, fig. 297.

Links

Zicha, Ondřej et al. Coronocephalus – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Coronocephalus – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Coronocephalus – Taxon details on Fossilworks.

Coronocephalus is an extinct genus of trilobites in the Phacopid family Encrinuridae. Species are from the Silurian of Australia and Japan, and from the Silurian and Ordovician of China.[1][2]
See also

List of trilobite genera

References

Zong, Rui-Wen; Liu, Qi; Wei, Fan; Gong, Yi-Ming (July 2017). "Fentou Biota: A Llandovery (Silurian) Shallow-Water Exceptionally Preserved Biota from Wuhan, Central China". The Journal of Geology. 125 (4): 469–478. doi:10.1086/692331. ISSN 0022-1376.
Stocker, Christopher P.; Siveter, Derek J.; Lane, Philip D.; Williams, Mark; Oji, Tatsuo; Wallis, Simon R.; Tanaka, Gengo; Komatsu, Toshifumi; Siveter, David J.; Vandenbroucke, Thijs R. A. (March 2019). "The paleobiogeographical significance of the Silurian and Devonian trilobites of Japan". Island Arc. 28 (2): e12287. doi:10.1111/iar.12287. hdl:1854/LU-8610848.