Changaspis

Changaspis; Temporal range: first half of the Middle Cambrian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Changaspis elongata, lower Cambrian, Guizhou province, China
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Order:	Corynexochida
Family:	Oryctocephalidae
Subfamily:	Oryctocephalinae
Genus:	Changaspis; Lee in Chien, 1961
Species
	C. elongata Lee in Chien, 1961 (type) synonyms C. micropyge, C. placenta[1]; C. longispina (Lee in Yegorova et al., 1963) synonym Pseudolancastria longispina; C. nangaoensis Lu and Chien in Yin and Li, 1978; C. transversa Zhou in Zhou et al. 1977;

Changaspis is an extinct genus of trilobite that lived during the lower Cambrian in what is now China.

References

McNamara, K.J.; Yu, F.; Zhiyi, Zhou (2006). "Ontogeny and Heterochrony in Oryctocephalid trilobites". Palaeontology. 49 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00525.x.

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