Liobole is a lower Carboniferous proetid trilobite.
| Liobole Temporal range: Visian
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| Liobole Glabra | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Proetida |
| Family: | †Proetidae |
| Genus: | †Liobole Richter and Richter, 1949 |
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Etymology edit
Liobole was described from material found in the Moravian Karst.[1] The species shown is from the lower carboniferous of SW England.[2]
Distribution edit
Liobole is found in the European Culm facies and has been collected from the lower Carboniferous across Europe for example from (Visian) deposits of SW England and (Tournaisian) of Poland and as far east as China.[3]
Taxonomy edit
Identified as proetid trilobite from the lower Visean Brezina formation by Chlupáč 1966.
References edit
- ^ Chlupáč, I. (1966). "The Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous trilobites of The Moravian Karst". Sbor. Geol. Věd, Ř.P. 7: 1–143.
- ^ Owens, R.M. (1995). "An atheloptic trilobite assemblage from the Carboniferous of North Devon". Geological Magazine. 132 (6): 713–728. Bibcode:1995GeoM..132..713O. doi:10.1017/S0016756800018938. S2CID 129158199.
- ^ Hahn, G. (2005). "Kulm trilobites (Lower Carboniferous) from S-China" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 79 (3): 371–375. Bibcode:2005PalZ...79..371H. doi:10.1007/BF02991929. S2CID 128582636.
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