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Triproetus

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Triproetus
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous–Guadalupian
Reconstruction of T. bonbon
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Triproetus

Steininger, 1831
Type species
Neoproetus Triproetus subovalis
Kobayashi and Hamada, 1979[1]
Species
  • T. altasulcus Brezinski, 1992
  • T. angustus Brezinski, 1992
  • T. bonbon Fortey and Heward, 2015[2]
  • ?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.[3]

References

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  1. ^ T. Kobayashi and T. Hamada. 1979. Permo-Carboniferous trilobites from Thailand and Malaysia. Geology and Palaeontology of Southeast Asia 20:1-21
  2. ^ R. A. Fortey and A. P. Heward. 2015. A new, morphologically diverse Permian trilobite fauna from Oman. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60:201-216 [1]
  3. ^ D. K. Brezinski. 1992. Permian trilobites from west Texas. Journal of Paleontology 66(6):924-943 [2]