Trinia (trilobite)

{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobite}}

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|fossil_range = Cambrian{{cite journal

| last = SEPKOSKI| first = J.| 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 }}

|taxon = Trinia (trilobite)

|authority = Poletaeva, 1956

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Trinia Poletaeva, 1956,POLETAEVA, O. K. 1956. Semejstvo Triniidae Poletayeva fam. nov., p. 178–179. In Kiparisova, L. D., Markovskij, B. P., and Radchenko, G. P. (eds.), Materialy po paleontologii. Novye semejstva i rody. Vsesoyuznyi Nauchno-issledovatel'skii Geologicheskii Institut (VSEGEI), Trudy, Novaya Seriya, 12. is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Cambrian Period, which lasted from approximately 542 to 488 million years ago.