Matania

{{Short description|Extinct genus of arthropods}}

{{for|the surname|Matania (surname)}}

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|fossil_range = Dresbachian{{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 |date=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}}

|taxon = Matania

|authority = Rasetti, 1946

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Matania is an extinct genus of ptychopariid trilobite in the family Catillicephalidae. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period. Most species are from Greenland, but some species are also found at the Cow Head formation in western Newfoundland,{{cite thesis |last1=Dengler |first1=Alyce A. |degree=PhD |title=Cambrian [Marjuman] trilobites (Arthropoda) of the Cow Head, western Newfoundland |publisher=The University of Oklahoma |year=2005 |hdl=11244/860}} and at least one occurrence of the genus is in KazakhstanG. K. Ergaliev and F. G. Ergaliev. 2008. Agnostidy srednego i verkhnego Kembriya Aksayskogo Gosudarstvennogo Geologicheskogo Zakaznika v yushnom Kazakhstane (Kyrshabakty, Malyy Karatau) [Middle and Upper Cambrian Agnostida from the Aksai National Geological Reserve in southern Kazakhstan (Kyrshabakty River, Malyy Karatau Range)] 1-359