{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}} {{about|the trilobite genus|German classical guitarist|Heike Matthiesen}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Tournaisian|Westphalian|late Tournaisian - Late Westphalian}} | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Gitarra | authority = Gandl, 1968 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{specieslist |G. leonensis|Romano, 1971 |G. pupuloides|(Leyh, 1897) }} }}
'''''Gitarra''''' is a genus of trilobite in the family Proetidae that lived between the late Tournaisian and Late Westphalian of the Carboniferous period.<ref name="Romano1971">{{cite journal |last1=Romano |first1=M. |year=1971 |title=A new proetid trilobite from the Lower Westphalian of north-west Spain |journal=The Carboniferous of Northwest Spain |volume=2 |pages=379–383}}</ref>
==History and classification== The genus was described by Josef Gandl in 1968, who assigned it to the family Phillipsiidae. This placement was challenged by Halszka Osmólska in 1970, who noted the similarity of ''Gitarra'' to the, then Proetidae, genera ''Griffithidella'' and ''Weania''.<ref name="Romano1971"/>
== Distribution == ''Gitarra'' has been found in the Carboniferous of Germany, and Spain.<ref name="Romano1971"/>
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Category:Proetida genera Category:Proetidae
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