Cyphaspis
Cyphaspis Temporal range: Late Ordovician - Late Devonian | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Trilobita |
Order: | Proetida |
Family: | Aulacopleuridae |
Genus: | Cyphaspis Burmeister 1843 |
Type species | |
Phacops ceratophthalmus Goldfuss 1843 | |
Species | |
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Cyphaspis is a genus of small trilobite that lived from the Late Ordovician to the Late Devonian. Fossils have been found in marine strata in what is now Europe, Africa and North America. Various species had a compact body, and a large, bulbous glabellum. Many species had long spines arranged similarly to closely related genera, such as Otarian, Otarionella, Chamaeleoaspis, and Namuropyge.
Sources
- Cyphasis on Trilobites.info
- Richard Fortey, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
External links
- Cyphaspis in the Paleobiology Database
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