# Damesellidae

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{{Short description|Family of odontopleurid trilobites}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Cambrian Stage 4|Furongian|Middle Cambrian-[Furongian](/source/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](/source/odontopleurida) [trilobite](/source/trilobite)s found in late Middle to Late [Cambrian](/source/Cambrian) marine strata, primarily of [China](/source/China).  Damesellids are closely related to the odontopleurids of [Odontopleuridae](/source/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](/source/Ptychopariida) and more advanced odontopleurids.

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

*{{Commons category-inline|Damesellidae}}

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Category:Damesellidae
Category:Trilobite families
Category:Furongian extinctions

{{Odontopleurida-stub}}

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