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Ceratolithus

Ceratolithus
Temporal range: Arenig
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Asaphida
Genus: Ceratolithus
Lu, 1959
species
  • C. cornutus Lu, 1959 (type)

Ceratolithus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the later part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.

Ceratolithus has been found in the Lower Ordovician of China (Arenig, Meitan Formation, Central Szechwan).

The haptophyte genus Ceratolithus.


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