| Cyamella Temporal range: Ordovician PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Trilobita |
| Order: | Proetida |
| Family: | Rorringtoniidae |
| Genus: | Cyamella Owens in Owens & Hammann, 1990 |
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Cyamella is a genus of proetid trilobites. It was originally described by Robert M. Owens in 1978, as "Cyamops", a junior homonym of the fly genus Cyamops, but was renamed in 1990.
References
- R. M. Owens (1978). "The trilobite genera Panarchaeogonus Opik, Isbergia Warburg and Cyamops gen. nov. from the Ordovician of Balto-Scandia and the British Isles". Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift. 58 (3): 199–219.
- Adrian Popp & Helje Pärnaste (2008). "Morphometric study of the Ordovician proetid trilobite Cyamella stensioei Owens, 1978". In Isabel Rábano, Rodolfo Gozalo & Diego García-Bellido Capdevila (ed.). Advances in Trilobite Research. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero. Vol. 9. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España. ISBN 978-84-7840-759-0.
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| Cyamella | |
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