Olenellus
Olenellus is an extinct genus of redlichiid trilobites, with species of average size (about 5 centimetres or 2.0 inches long). It lived during the Botomian and Toyonian stages (Olenellus-zone), 522 to 510 million years ago, in what is currently North-America, part of the paleocontinent Laurentia.
Etymology
Olenellus means small Olenus, after a genus belonging to the Ptychopariida, to which the type species O. thompsoni was originally assigned. The name Olenus refers to a mythological figure who was turned to stone by the gods. The names of the species have the following derivations.
Mesonacis
Mesonacis is an extinct genus of trilobite that lived during the Botomian, found in North-America (excluding Greenland), and the United Kingdom (North-Western Scotland). Some of the species now regarded part of Mesonacis, have previously been assigned to Angustolenellus or Olenellus (Angustolenellus).Angustolenellus is now regarded a junior synonym of Mesonacis.
Etymology
M. vermontanus is named after the State of Vermont, where it was collected. M. bonnensis is called after the Bonne Bay, Newfoundland, where the species is found. M. eagerensis refers to the Eager Formation, British Columbia, in which it occurs. M. hamaculus is derived from the Latin hamus, meaning hooked, and oculus, meaning eye.
Distribution
M. vermontanus occurs in the middle Upper Olenellus-zone of Vermont (Parker Slate, Georgia).
M. bonnensis has been found in the Olenellus-zone of Newfoundland, Canada (Forteau Formation, East shore of the Bonne Bay East Arm).
M. cylindricus was collected in the Upper Olenellus-zone of California (Eagle Mountain Shale, Carrara Formation, Grapeville Mountains, White/Inyo Mountains, South end of the Marble Mountains,and in San Bernardino County).
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