Acanthopyge

Acanthopyge
Temporal range:
Acanthopyge sp., Devonian, Morocco
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Lichida
Family: †Lichidae
Genus: †
Hawle & Corda, 1847
Species
  • A. haueri (Barrande, 1846) (type) synonyms Lichas haueri, A. leuchtenbergii
  • A. consanguinea (Clarke, 1894) synonym Arges consanguineus[1]
Synonyms

Euarges, Mephiarges, Diplolichas, Lobopyge

Acanthopyge is an extinct genus of lichid trilobite that lived during the Devonian. Very few A. consanguinea from the Devonian of Oklahoma have been found, and only a handful of complete specimens from Morocco, and many so-called Acanthopyge-specimens from Morocco are fake.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Whittington, H.B. (1956). "Beecher's Lichid Protaspis and Acanthopyge consanguinea (Trilobita)". Journal of Paleontology. 30 (5): 1200–1204. JSTOR 1300618.
  2. ^ "About fake A. sp". Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
  3. ^ "A. consanguinea".

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