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{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}}
{{about|the trilobite genus|the catfish genus|Phractura}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = ''Peltura''
| | fossil_range = Upper Cambrian
| taxon = Peltura
| authority = [[Henri Milne-Edwards|Milne-Edwards]], 1840
| type_species = †''[[Peltura scarabaeoides|Entomostracites scarabaeoides]]''
| type_species_authority = [[Göran Wahlenberg|Wahlenberg]], 1818
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = *†''Peltura acutidens''
*†''Peltura minor''
*†''Peltura paradoxa''
*†''Peltura scarabaeoides''
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'''''Peltura''''' is a genus of [[trilobites]] from the [[Upper Cambrian]].<ref name = fossilid>{{cite web | url = http://fossillid.info/13425 | title = Genus ''Peltura'' Milne-Edwards, 1840 | accessdate = 28 July 2017 | publisher = fossiilid.info | work = Paleobiodiversity in Baltoscandia}}</ref> The [[type specimen]] of ''Peltura scarabaeoides'', the [[type species]] of the genus, was discovered in the [[Alum Shale Formation]] of [[Sweden]] and described by the Swedish naturalist [[Göran Wahlenberg]] in 1818.<ref name = Wahlenberg>{{cite web | url = http://jsjgeology.net/Wahlenberg-1818.htm | title = WAHLENBERG (1818) | accessdate = 28 July 2017 | publisher = jsgeology.net}}</ref> Species of this genus have now been found throughout the Scandinavian and Baltic regions.<ref name = fossilid/>
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[[Category:Olenina]]
[[Category:Ptychopariida genera]]
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1818]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards]]
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