Acanthopyge

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Acanthopyge
Temporal range: Middle Silurian to Middle Devonian
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Acanthopyge sp., Devonian, Morocco
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Lichida
Family: Lichidae
Genus: Acanthopyge
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]

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