Crepicephalus
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| Crepicephalus Temporal range: Dresbachian[1]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Ptychopariida |
| Family: | †Crepicephalidae |
| Genus: | †Crepicephalus Owen, 1852 |
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Crepicephalus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.[1]
Reassigned species
[edit | edit source]Some species, previously described as Crepicephalus have since been moved to other genera.[2][3]
- C. angusta = Kochaspis angusta
- C. convexus = Crepicephalina convexa
- C. liliana = Kochaspis liliana
- C. nitidus = Dunderbergia nitida
- C. quadrans = Ehmaniella quadrans
- C. unca = Uncaspis unca
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