Coronura

Short description: Genus of trilobites

Coronura

Temporal range: Mid Devonian
~392–383 Ma

PreЄ

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  |

Animalia

Phylum:  |

Arthropoda

Class:  |

Trilobita

Order:  |

Phacopida

Family:  |

Dalmanitidae

Genus:  |

Coronura

Hall & Clarke, 1888

Type species
C. aspectans

Species

* C. aspectans
* C. lessepsensis

Coronura is a trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the Middle Devonian in what is now New York, United States . It was described by Hall and Clarke in 1888, and the type species is Coronura aspectans, which was originally described under the genus Asaphus by Conrad in 1841. The species was described from the Onondaga Formation.[1] Fossils of Coronura have also been found in Indiana,[2] and in the Emsian to Givetian Floresta Formation, Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia.[3]

## References

1. ↑ Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.
2. ↑ Coronura at the Paleobiology Database
3. ↑ Morzadec et al., 2015, p.346

### Bibliography

* Morzadec, Pierre; Michal Mergl; Carlos Villarroel; Philippe Janvier, and Patrick R. Racheboeuf. 2015. Trilobites and inarticulate brachiopods from the Devonian Floresta Formation of Colombia: a review. Bulletin of Geosciences 90\. 331-358. Accessed 2017-04-04.

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