description Kathwaia Overview
Kathwaia is an extinct genus of Permian trilobites assigned to the order Proetida. It was described from marine rocks near Kathwai village in Pakistan's Salt Range and is also represented in late Permian records from the North Caucasus; the type species was based on a Salt Range specimen. The genus has a swollen, pear-shaped glabella, small eyes, and a cephalon covered with prominent tubercles, and it is discussed in studies of the last trilobites.
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What kind of trilobite was Kathwaia?
Kathwaia was an extinct Permian trilobite genus assigned to the order Proetida. It is associated with marine rocks of Pakistan's Salt Range and later Permian records from the North Caucasus.
Where does the name Kathwaia come from?
The genus was named after Kathwai village in Pakistan's Salt Range. Its type species was based on material from the Salt Range.
When did Kathwaia live?
Kathwaia lived during the Permian Period, the final period of the Paleozoic Era. Permian trilobites were already much less diverse than their Cambrian and Ordovician relatives.
What are proetid trilobites?
Proetids were a trilobite order that survived into the Permian, long after many other trilobite groups disappeared. Kathwaia belongs to this late-surviving lineage of marine arthropods.
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