| Peltura
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Ptychopariida |
| Family: | †Olenidae |
| Genus: | †Peltura Milne-Edwards, 1840 |
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| †Entomostracites scarabaeoides Wahlenberg, 1818 | |
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Peltura is a genus of trilobites from the Upper Cambrian.[1] The type specimenofPeltura scarabaeoides, the type species of the genus, was discovered in the Alum Shale FormationofSweden and described by the Swedish naturalist Göran Wahlenberg in 1818.[2] Species of this genus have now been found throughout the Scandinavian and Baltic regions.[1]
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