Mesonacinae

Mesonacinae; Temporal range: Botomian
	Mesonacis vermontanus, late Lower Cambrian, Australia, Courtesy of Sam Gon III.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Order:	Redlichiida
Family:	Olenellidae
Subfamily:	Mesonacinae; Walcott, 1890
Genera
	Mesonacis Walcott, 1885[1]; Mesolenellus (Palmer & Repina, 1993)[2][1];

The Mesonacinae comprise an extinct subfamily of trilobites that lived during the Botomian, found in North-America, Greenland and North-Western Scotland. The two genera in this subfamily are Mesonacis and Mesolenellus.[1]

References

Lieberman, B.S. (1999). "Systematic Revision of the Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 45. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
Palmer, A.R.; Repina, L.N. (1993), "Through a Glass Darkly: Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Biostratigraphy of the Olenellina", The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, 3: 1–35

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[Lieberman_1999-1] Lieberman, B.S. (1999). "Systematic Revision of the Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 45. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2012-10-30.

[Palmer&Repina-2] Palmer, A.R.; Repina, L.N. (1993), "Through a Glass Darkly: Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Biostratigraphy of the Olenellina", The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, 3: 1–35