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Panderia

Extinct genus of trilobites

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Panderia is a genus of trilobites in the order Corynexochida.

These nektobenthic carnivores lived in the Ordovician period, from 466.0 to 443.7 Ma.

01Species

  • Panderia baltica
  • Panderia beaumonti (Rouault 1847)
  • Panderia derivata
  • Panderia edita
  • Panderia erratica
  • Panderia hadelandica
  • Panderia insulana
  • Panderia lerkakensis
  • Panderia lewisi Salter 1867
  • Panderia lubrica
  • Panderia megalophthalma Linnarsson, 1869 (p. 26)
  • Panderia migratoria
  • Panderia parvula (Holm 1882)
  • Panderia ramosa
  • Panderia triquetra Volborth 1863

02Distribution

Fossils of this genus have been found in the Ordovician sediments of Norway, France, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.

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