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Cybele (trilobite)

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Cybele
Cybele bellatula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Encrinuridae
Genus: Cybele
Lovén, 1846
Species

Cybele is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, that existed during the middle Ordovician in what is now Sweden. It was described by Loven in 1846, and the type species is Cybele bellatula, which was originally described dubiously under the genus Calymene by Dalman in 1827. The type locality was in Östergötland.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.