Olenellus Temporal range:
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Olenellus thompsoni | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Trilobita |
Order: | †Redlichiida |
Family: | †Olenellidae |
Subfamily: | †Olenellinae |
Genus: | †Olenellus Billings, 1861 |
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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 palaeocontinent Laurentia.[4]