Gerastos Temporal range:
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Gerastos tuberculatus from Morocco | |
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Gerastos sp. from Morocco | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Trilobita |
Order: | † Proetida |
Family: | † Proetidae |
Genus: | †
Gerastos Goldfuss, 1843 |
Species | |
Gerastos is a genus of proetid trilobite in the family Proetidae that lived between the Pragian and Eifelian of the Lower-Middle Devonian, spanning approximately 21 million years. [2]
It was described by Goldfuss in 1843. [2]
Gerastos has been found in the Devonian of Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic and Morocco. [2]
Gerastos has holochroal eyes situated to the side of its enlarged glabella region of the cephalon. The surface of the cephalon can be smooth or covered with pustules. [3] [4]
Length rarely exceeds 3 cm.[ citation needed]
Gerastos Temporal range:
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Gerastos tuberculatus from Morocco | |
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Gerastos sp. from Morocco | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Trilobita |
Order: | † Proetida |
Family: | † Proetidae |
Genus: | †
Gerastos Goldfuss, 1843 |
Species | |
Gerastos is a genus of proetid trilobite in the family Proetidae that lived between the Pragian and Eifelian of the Lower-Middle Devonian, spanning approximately 21 million years. [2]
It was described by Goldfuss in 1843. [2]
Gerastos has been found in the Devonian of Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic and Morocco. [2]
Gerastos has holochroal eyes situated to the side of its enlarged glabella region of the cephalon. The surface of the cephalon can be smooth or covered with pustules. [3] [4]
Length rarely exceeds 3 cm.[ citation needed]