Odontopleura

Odontopleura Temporal range: Late Ordovician-Mid Devonian ~449–388 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
O. ovata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	†Trilobita
Order:	†Odontopleurida
Family:	†Odontopleuridae
Genus:	†Odontopleura Emmrich, 1839
Type species
Odontopleura ovata Emmrich, 1839
Species
O. callicera[1] O. generalandersi Borowski, 2008[2] O. markhami Edgecomb & Sherwin, 2001 O. ovata Emmrich, 1839

Odontopleura is a genus of spinose odontopleurid trilobite in the family Odontopleuridae, and is the type genus of that family and of Odontopleurida. The various species are found in Upper Ordovician to Middle Devonian marine strata throughout the world. The best studied fossils are of the type species, O. ovata, from the Wenlock-aged Liteň Formation in Loděnice, in Bohemia, Czech Republic, and, southeastern Gotland, of Sweden.[3]

Distribution

Fossils of Odontopleura have been found in:[4]

Devonian

China, Floresta Formation, Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia[1]

Silurian

Canada (Northwest Territories, Quebec), China, the Czech Republic, Poland, United States (Iowa, New York)

Ordovician

United States (Indiana, Ohio, Virginia)

References

1. Floresta Fauna at Fossilworks.org
2. Borowski T. Odontopleura generalandersi - a new Silurian trilobite species of the Odontopleura genus occurring in the north Poland. Curr World Environ 2008;3(2):213-216. [1]
3. Calner, Mikael, et al. "The first record of Odontopleura ovata (Trilobita) from Scandinavia: part of a middle Silurian intercontinental shelly benthos mass occurrence." GFF 128.1 (2006): 33-37.
4. Odontopleura at Fossilworks.org