Kleptothule

Kleptothule Temporal range: Atdabanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Kleptothule rasmusseni and Ooedigera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Order:	Redlichiida
Suborder:	?Olenellina
Superfamily:	?Fallotaspidoidea
Family:	?Nevadiidae
Genus:	Kleptothule
Species:	K. rasmusseni
Binomial name
Kleptothule rasmusseni (Budd, 1995)

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Kleptothule rasmusseni is a small, elongated trilobite, about 3 cm in length, and about 5 to 6 mm in width, from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte. It is currently placed in the family Nevadiidae, though this may change with further study.

Its cephalon is composed of at least five segments, and its elongated thorax is composed of 27+ segments. The 20 or so segments of the pygidium are poorly defined, as they are fused together.

The original publication was in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1995, "Kleptothule rasmusseni gen. et sp. nov.: an ?olenellinid-like trilobite from the Sirius Passet fauna (Buen Formation, Lower Cambrian, North Greenland)". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

External links

• Data related to Kleptothule at Wikispecies
• Peripatus Homepage "Trilobite Origins" [1]
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070831114814/http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Cambrian/Sirius_Passet.html

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