Matania is an extinct genus of ptychopariid trilobite in the family Catillicephalidae. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.[1] Most species are from Greenland, but some species are also found at the Cow Head formation in western Newfoundland,[2] and at least one occurrence of the genus is in Kazakhstan[3]
| Matania Temporal range: Dresbachian[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Ptychopariida |
| Family: | †Catillicephalidae |
| Genus: | †Matania Rasetti, 1946 |
References
edit- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- ^ Dengler, Alyce A. (2005). Cambrian [Marjuman] trilobites (Arthropoda) of the Cow Head, western Newfoundland (PhD thesis). The University of Oklahoma. hdl:11244/860.
- ^ G. K. Ergaliev and F. G. Ergaliev. 2008. Agnostidy srednego i verkhnego Kembriya Aksayskogo Gosudarstvennogo Geologicheskogo Zakaznika v yushnom Kazakhstane (Kyrshabakty, Malyy Karatau) [Middle and Upper Cambrian Agnostida from the Aksai National Geological Reserve in southern Kazakhstan (Kyrshabakty River, Malyy Karatau Range)] 1-359
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