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Birmanites
Temporal range: Upper Cambrian–Silurian
B. ingens from Czech Republic at the National Museum (Prague)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Asaphida
Family: Asaphidae
Genus: Birmanites
Sheng, 1934
Synonyms
  • Opsimasaphus Kielan 1960

Birmanites is a genus of trilobites in the order Asaphida, family Asaphidae.

They lived in the Ordovician period, from the Tremadocian age until the Lower Ashgillian age (488.3-449.5 million years ago). These arthropods were a low-level epifauna, fast-moving and detritivore.

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Ordovician of Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom; Llandeilo of China; Arenigian of Argentina, China.

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