Mesonacinae Temporal range: 516–513 Ma Botomian |
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Mesonacis vermontanus, late Lower Cambrian, Australia, Courtesy of Sam Gon III. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Trilobita |
Order: | Redlichiida |
Family: | Olenellidae |
Subfamily: |
Mesonacinae Walcott, 1890 |
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The Mesonacinae comprise an extinct subfamily of trilobites that lived during the Botomian, found in North-America, Greenland and North-Western Scotland. The two genera in this subfamily are Mesonacis and Mesolenellus.