Pleuroctenium

Pleuroctenium
Temporal range:
Pleuroctenium granulatum granulatum Menevia Formation, Wales
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita (?)
Order: Agnostida
Family: Condylopygidae
Genus: Pleuroctenium
Hawle & Corda, 1847
Species
  • P. granulatum (Barrande, 1846) (type) synonyms Battus granulatus, Agnostus granulatus, Dichagnostus granulatus
    • P. granulatum granulatum
    • P. granulatum pileatum Rushton, 1966
    • P. granulatum scanense Westergård, 1946
  • P. bifurcatum (Illing, 1916)
  • P. magnificum Howell, 1935
  • P. tuberculatum (Illing, 1916)
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Dichagnostus

Pleuroctenium is an agnostid trilobite belonging to the family Condylopygidae Raymond (1913). The genus occurs in Middle Cambrian (Drumian) strata of Canada (Newfoundland and New Brunswick), the Czech Republic, England and Wales, France, and Sweden.