Parapagetia

Parapagetia
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Trilobita (?)
Order: †Agnostida
Family: †Hebediscidae
Genus: †Parapagetia
Repina, 1964
Species
  • P. limbata Repina, 1964 (type)
  • P. icatunica Repina, 1964
  • P. palaeformis Romanenko & Romanenko, 1967
  • P. plana E. Romanenko, 1978

Parapagetia is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Botomian stage, which lasted from approximately 524 to 518.5 million years ago. This faunal stage was part of the Cambrian Period.

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