Acrocephalella

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{{Taxobox

| name = Acrocephalella

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|500.5|497|GuzhangianPaibian}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Trilobita

| ordo = Ptychopariida

| superfamilia = Ptychoparioidea

| familia = Acrocephalitidae

| genus = Acrocephalella

| genus_authority = Rozova, 1963

| subdivision_ranks = species

| subdivision =

  • A. granulosa Rozova, 1963 (type)

}}

Acrocephalella is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 497 million years ago during the Guzhangian of the late Cambrian Period.{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry) |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |pages=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |accessdate=2008-01-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |archivedate=2006-09-05 }}

Distribution

A. granulosa is present in the Cambrian of the Russian Federation (Nganasany Member, Kulyumbe Formation, Kulyumbe River, Krasnoyar, 68.0°N - 88.8°E).{{cite journal|last= Rozova|first= A.V.|year= 1968|title= Biostratigrafiya i trilobity verkhnego Kembriya i nizhnego Ordovika severo-zapada Sibirskoy Platformy [Biostratigraphy and trilobites of the Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician of the northwestern Siberian platform]|journal= Trudy Instituta Geologii I Geofiziki, Sibirskoye Otdeleniye|volume= 36|pages= 1–195}} cited in {{cite web|title= Acrocephalella granulosa|author= Paleobiology Database|url= https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=242800|access-date= 17 December 2021}}

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