Panderia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Ordovician}}[https://www.fossilworks.org The Paleobiology Database]

| image = Panderiidae - Panderia beaumonti.JPG

| image_caption = Fossil of Panderia beaumonti from Ille-et-Vilaine, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris

| taxon = Panderia

| authority = Volborth, 1863

}}

Panderia is a genus of trilobites in the order Corynexochida.

These nektobenthic carnivores lived in the Ordovician period,Sepkoski, Jack [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class Sepkoski's Online Genus Database - Trilobita] from 466.0 to 443.7 Ma.

Species

  • 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

Distribution

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

References

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  • Bruton David L., 1968: [http://foreninger.uio.no/ngf/ngt/pdfs/NGT_48_1&2_001-053.pdf The trilobite genus Panderia from the Ordovician of Scandinavia and the Baltic areas.] Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 48(1-2): 1-34