Nevadia
Sign in to saveNevadia is an extinct genus of redlichiid trilobites, with species of average size (about long). It lived during the Atdabanian stage, which lasted from 530 to 524 million years ago, in what are today Western Canada, the Western United States, and Mexico.
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Nevadia is an extinct genus of redlichiid trilobites, with species of average size (about long). It lived during the Atdabanian stage, which lasted from 530 to 524 million years ago, in what are today Western Canada, the Western United States, and Mexico.
== Etymology == Nevadia is named for the US State of Nevada, where the first specimens of this genus where found. N. fritzi in named in honor of W.H. Fritz, a paleontologist who worked on olenelloid trilobites.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nevadia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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