Bathydiscus

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| fossil_range = {{Geological range|522|516|Botomian (Olenellus-zone)}}

| image = Bathydiscus linedrawing.jpg

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| image_caption = Bathydiscus dolichometopus

| taxon = Bathydiscus

| authority = Rasetti, 1966

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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B. dolichometopus{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry) |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |accessdate=12 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |archivedate=5 September 2006 }}

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Bathydiscus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Botomian stage.

Distribution

Bathydiscus is known from the Lower Cambrian of the United States (unnamed formation, East Chatham Quad, Columbia County, New York State {{Coord|42|24|N|73|30|W}}),{{cite web|author=Paleobiology Database|title= East Chatham Quad, unnamed fm., NY (Cambrian of the United States) (trilobite)|access-date= 19 December 2012|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=189}} and of Canada (Newfoundland).Whittington, H. B. et al. Part O, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Revised, Volume 1 – Trilobita – Introduction, Order Agnostida, Order Redlichiida. 1997

Ecology

Bathydiscus occurs in association with other Weymouthiidae (Acidiscus, Acimetopus, Analox, Bolboparia, Leptochilodiscus, Serrodiscus), Calodiscus,

several species of Olenellus and Bonnia (Dorypygidae).

References

Category:Weymouthiidae

Category:Agnostida genera

Category:Cambrian trilobites

Category:Extinct animals of North America