Oryctocephalus indicus

Oryctocephalus indicus Temporal range: Wuliuan PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	†Trilobita
Order:	†Corynexochida
Family:	†Oryctocephalidae
Genus:	†Oryctocephalus
Species:	†O. indicus
Binomial name
†Oryctocephalus indicus (Reed, 1910)
Synonyms
Zacanthoides indicus Reed, 1910

Oryctocephalus indicus is a species of corynexochid trilobite from the Cambrian. Its first appearance is proposed for the lower boundary of the Wuliuan, which corresponds to the beginning of the Miaolingian (The other proposal was Ovatoryctocara granulata).[1][2] The species was first described by the British paleontologist Frederick Richard Cowper Reed in 1910 as Zacanthoides indicus.[3] It was transferred to the genus Oryctocephalus by the American paleontologist Charles Elmer Resser in 1938.[4]

References

1. "GSSP Table - Paleozoic Era". Retrieved 15 November 2012.
2. Gozalo, Rodolfo; Álvarez, María Eugenia Dies; Vintaned, José Antonio Gámez; Zhuravlev, Andrey Yu.; Bauluz, Blanca; Subías, Ignacio; Chirivella Martorell, Juan B.; Mayoral, Eduardo; Gursky, Hans-Jürgen; Andrés, José Antonio; Liñán, Eladio (1 December 2011). "Proposal of a reference section and point for the Cambrian Series 2-3 boundary in the Mediterranean subprovince in Murero (NE Spain) and its intercontinental correlation". Geological Journal. 48 (2–3): 142–155. doi:10.1002/gj.1330. S2CID 129084517.
3. Zhao, Yuanlong (2006). "A restudy of Oryctocephalus indicus (Reed, 1910)" (PDF). Progress in Natural Science. 16. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
4. "Oryctocephalus indicus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 16 November 2012.

Further reading

• Shengguang Chen, Xinglian Yang, Xiong Liu, Zhengpeng Chen, Zhixin Sun, Fangchen Zhao (2023). "Moulting behaviour in the trilobite Oryctocephalus indicus (Reed, 1910) from the Cambrian Miaolingian Series (Wuliuan Stage) of Jianhe, South China". PeerJ. 11 (3): e16440. doi:10.7717/peerj.16440. PMC 10722983. PMID 38107583.