Biceratopsinae

Temporal range: Toyonian (Upper Olenellus-zone) 516–513 Ma

PreЄ

Emigrantia sp., a cephalon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  |

Animalia

Phylum:  |

Arthropoda

Class:  |

Trilobita

Order:  |

Redlichiida

Suborder:  |

Olenellina

Superfamily:  |

Olenelloidea

Family:  |

Biceratopsidae

Subfamily:  |

Biceratopsinae

(Pack & Gayle, 1971)[1]

Genera

* Biceratops Pack & Gayle, 1971 (Type)
* Bolbolenellus Palmer and Repina, 1993
* Emigrantia nomen nudum
* Eopeachella Webster, 2009
* Nephrolenellus Palmer and Repina, 1993[2]
* Olenelloides (Peach, 1894)
* Paranephrolenellus Webster, 2007[3]
* Peachella (Walcott, 1910)

The Biceratopsinae is an extinct subfamily of redlichiid trilobites within the family Biceratopsidae, with species of small to average size. Species belonging to this subfamily lived during the Toyonian stage (Upper Olenellus-zone), 516-513 million years ago, in the former continent of Laurentia, including what are today the South-Western United States and Canada.[4]

## Etymology

The Biceratopsinae are named for the type species Biceratops nevadensis.

## Habitat

The Biceratopsinae were probably marine bottom dweller, like all Olenellina.

## References

1. ↑ Lieberman, B.S. (1999). "Systematic Revision of the Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 45. http://invitestock.free.fr/Cambrien/pdf/Spanish fauna/Cladistic Analysis of the Early Cambrian Olenelloid Trilobites.pdf.
2. ↑ M., Webster (2007). "Ontogeny and evolution of the early Cambrian trilobite genus Nephrolenellus (Olenelloidea)". Journal of Paleontology 81 (6): 1168–1193. doi:10.1666/06-092.1. Bibcode: 2007JPal...81.1168W. http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/81/6/1168.
3. ↑ Webster, M. (2007). "Paranephrolenellus, a New Genus of Early Cambrian Olenelloid Trilobite". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 34: 101–130.
4. ↑ Pack, P.D.; Gayle, H.B. (2009). "A New Olenellid Trilobite, Biceratops nevadensis, from the Lower Cambrian near Las Vegas, Nevada". Journal of Paleontology 45 (5): pp. 893–898.

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