Emuelloidea
Emuelloidae are a small superfamily of trilobites, a group of extinct marine arthropods, that lived during the late Lower Cambrian (late Botomian) of the East Gondwana supercontinent, in what are today South-Australia and Antarctica. Emuelloidea can be recognized by having a prothorax consisting of 3 or 6 segments, the most backward one of which is carrying very large trailing spines. Behind it is the so-called opistothorax. There are two families, the Emuellidae (with a prothorax of six segments) and the Megapharanaspididae (with a prothorax of three segments).
| Emuelloidea Temporal range: late Botomian | |
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| Balcoracania dailyi of the family Emuellidae Lower Cambrian Emu Shale Kangaroo Island, South Australia © Dave Simpson | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Redlichiida |
| Suborder: | †Redlichiina |
| Superfamily: | †Emuelloidea Pocock, 1970 |
| Families | |
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