Quitacetra

{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Quitacetra

| fossil_range = Late Cambrian{{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

|access-date=2008-01-12

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class

|archive-date=September 5, 2006

}}

| image = Quitacetra arenata.jpg

| image_caption = restoration of Q. arenata

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Trilobita

| ordo = Ptychopariida

| familia = Mapaniidae

| genus = Quitacetra

| genus_authority = Öpik 1967

}}

Quitacetra arenata is a species of ptychopariid trilobite arthropod from Late Cambrian-aged deposits in Quita Creek, Queensland.

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