Cedaria [SEP] parent taxon
The border in the pygidium is as wide as in the cephalon and is also often darker, but the border furrow is very shallow or absent.
Taxonomy.
"Bonneterrina", "Carinamala", "Cedaria", "Cedarina", "Paracedaria", "Jimachongia" and "Vernaculina" together comprise the family Cedariidae.
Taxonomy Reassigned species.
- "C. buttsi" = ?"Crepicephalus"
- "C. woosteri" = ?
Distribution.
- "C. minor" appears in the
Cedaria
Cedaria is a small, rather flat trilobite with an oval outline, a headshield and tailshield of approximately the same size, 7 articulating segments in the middle part of the body and spines at the back edges of the headshield that reach halflength of the body. "Cedaria" lived during the early part of the Upper Cambrian (Dresbachian), and is especially abundant in the Weeks Formation.
Description.
"Cedaria" has an ovate outline of long on average (maximum size 2.5 cm) and ¾