Triproetus

{{short description|Genus of trilobites}}

{{Taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Late Carboniferous|Guadalupian}}

| image = Triproetus bonbon.JPG

| image_caption = Reconstruction of T. bonbon

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Trilobita

| ordo = Proetida

| familia = Phillipsiidae

| subfamilia = Ditomopyginae

| genus = Triproetus

| genus_authority = Steininger, 1831

| type_species = Neoproetus Triproetus subovalis

| type_species_authority = Kobayashi and Hamada, 1979T. Kobayashi and T. Hamada. 1979. Permo-Carboniferous trilobites from Thailand and Malaysia. Geology and Palaeontology of Southeast Asia 20:1-21

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • T. altasulcus Brezinski, 1992
  • T. angustus Brezinski, 1992
  • T. bonbon Fortey and Heward, 2015R. A. Fortey and A. P. Heward. 2015. A new, morphologically diverse Permian trilobite fauna from Oman. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60:201-216 [http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app001062014.html]
  • ?T. spitsbergensis(Osmólska 1968)
  • T. subovalis (Kobayashi and Hamada, 1979) type species* (McCoy, 1846)
  • T. tumidus Brezinski, 1992

}}

Triroetus is a genus of proetid trilobite found in Upper Carboniferous-aged marine strata in Russia, and Lower Permian-aged strata of Thailand, Malaysia, Spitzbergen, Yukon Territory, and Middle Permian-aged marine strata of Oman and Texas.D. K. Brezinski. 1992. Permian trilobites from west Texas. Journal of Paleontology 66(6):924-943 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1305948?seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents]

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