Fallotaspidella

{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Geological range|521|515|Lower Cambrian (Atdabanian)}} | taxon = Fallotaspidella | authority = Repina, 1961 | type_species = ''Fallotaspidella musatovi'' | type_species_authority = Repina, 1961 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''F. chesenica'' Korobov 1980 *''F. lata'' Repina, 1961 *''F. musatovi'' Repina, 1961 }}

'''''Fallotaspidella''''' is an extinct genus of redlichiid trilobites. It lived during the late Atdabanian stage,<ref name="Sepkoski">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry) |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |access-date=2008-01-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |archive-date=2006-09-05 }}</ref> which lasted from 530 to 524 million years ago during the early part of the Cambrian Period.

== Distribution == The type species, ''F. musatovi'' was collected from the Lower Cambrian of Siberia (later Atdabanian, southern Siberian fold belt, Altay-Sayan region, Lena Stage of the Batenevskiy Ridge).<ref name="Whittington">Whittington, H. B. et al. Part O, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Revised, Volume 1 – Trilobita – Introduction, Order Agnostida, Order Redlichiida. 1997</ref><ref name="Lieberman 2002"/>

== Taxonomy == ''Fallotaspidella'' is a derived member of the superfamily "Fallotaspidoidea". ''Fallotaspidella'' is closest to the trilobites with dorsal cephalic sutures, such as ''Bigotina'' and ''Lemdadella'', making it pivotal in the understanding of the development of these sutures. Of all the other Fallotaspoids ''Archaeaspis'' is most related to ''Fallotaspidella''.<ref name="Lieberman 2002">{{cite journal|last= Lieberman|first= B.S.|title= Phylogenetic analysis of some basal early Cambrian Trilobites, the biogeographic origins of the Eutrilobites, and the timing of the Cambrian radiation|year= 2002|journal= Journal of Paleontology|volume= 76|number= 4|pages= 692–708|url= http://paleo.ku.edu/geo/faculty/BSL/JPTrilos2002.pdf|doi= 10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0692:paosbe>2.0.co;2|access-date= 2012-09-29|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110812151230/http://www.paleo.ku.edu/geo/faculty/BSL/JPTrilos2002.pdf|archive-date= 2011-08-12|url-status= dead}}</ref>

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Category:Cambrian trilobites Category:Fallotaspidoidea Category:Fossils of Russia Category:Redlichiida genera