{{Short description|Family of odontopleurid trilobites}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Cambrian Stage 4|Furongian|Middle Cambrian-Furongian}} | image = {{Easy CSS image crop|Image=Zhejiang Geological Museum 20240804 120753.jpg|desired_width=250|crop_bottom_perc=50|crop_left_perc=20|crop_right_perc=20}} | image_caption = ''Damesella paronai'' | taxon = Damesellidae | authority = Kobayashi, 1935 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text | synonyms = * Drepanuridae * Kaolishaniidae }}

'''Damesellidae''' is a family of odontopleurid trilobites found in late Middle to Late Cambrian marine strata, primarily of China. Damesellids are closely related to the odontopleurids of Odontopleuridae, but are not nearly as spinose, nor possess spines as exaggerated as Odontopleuridae. Like Odontopleuridae odontopleurids, damesellids have broad, bar-shaped cranidia with ledge-like borders. Damesellidae may represent transitional forms between more primitive, possibly ancestral ptychopariids and more advanced odontopleurids.

==Genera== Genera include {{div col|colwidth=15em}} *?''Adelogonus'' *''Bergeronites'' *''Blackwelderia'' *''Blackwelderioides'' *''Chiawangella'' *''Cyrtoprora'' *''Damesella'' *''Damesops'' *''Dipentaspis'' *''Dipyrgotes'' *''Duamsannella'' *''Fengduia'' *''Guancenshania'' *?''Hercantyx'' *''Histiomona'' *''Jiawangaspis'' *''Karslanus''&nbsp;<ref>{{cite journal |author=Hüseyin Özdikmen |year=2009 |title=Nomenclatural changes for twenty trilobites genera |journal=Munis Entomology and Zoology |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=155–171 |url=http://www.munisentzool.org/yayin/vol4/issue1/155-171.pdf }}</ref> *''Liuheaspis'' *''Metashantungia'' *''Neodamesella'' *''Neodrepanura'' *''Palaeadotes,'' *''Paradamesella'' *''Parashantungia'' *''Pingquania'' *''Pionaspis'' *''Protaitzehoia'' *''Pseudoblackwelderia'' *''Shantungia'' *''Stephanocare'' *''Taihangshania'' *''Taitzehoia'' *''Teinistion'' *''Xintaia'' *''Yanshanopyge'' {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

*{{Commons category-inline|Damesellidae}}

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Category:Damesellidae Category:Trilobite families Category:Furongian extinctions

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