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{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobite}}
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{{Taxobox
|name = ''Coosina''
|fossil_range = [[Dresbachian]]<ref name="Sepkoski">{{cite journal
|last=Sepkoski
|first=Jack
|title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)
|journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology
|volume=364
|page=560
|year=2002
|url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class
|accessdate=2008-01-12
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class
|archivedate=2006-09-05
}}</ref>
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
|classis = [[Trilobita]]
|ordo = [[Ptychopariida]]
|superfamilia =
|genus = '''''Coosina'''''
}}
'''''Coosina''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] from a well-known class of [[fossil]] marine [[arthropod]]s, the [[trilobite]]s. It lived from approximately 501 to 490 million years ago during the [[Dresbachian]] [[faunal stage]] of the late [[Cambrian Period]].<ref name="Sepkoski"/><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rasetti |first=Franco |date=1956 |title=Revision of the Trilobite Genus Maryvillia Walcott |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1300626 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=30 |issue=5 |pages=1266–1269 |jstor=1300626 |issn=0022-3360}}</ref> It is one of the oldest fossils.
==References==
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[[Category:Ptychopariida]]
[[Category:Cambrian trilobites]]
[[Category:Extinct animals of North America]]
[[Category:Paleozoic life of Newfoundland and Labrador]]
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