Hoplitaspis
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This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (October 2025) |
| Hoplitaspis Temporal range: Late Katian
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| File:Hoplitaspis hiawathai life restoration.png | |
| Life restoration of H. hiawathai, with some elements based on Octoberaspis | |
| File:20200605 Hoplitaspis hiawathai.png | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Clade: | Dekatriata |
| Order: | †Chasmataspidida |
| Family: | †Diploaspididae |
| Genus: | †Hoplitaspis Lamsdell et al., 2019 |
| Type species | |
| †Hoplitaspis hiawathai Lamsdell et al., 2019
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Hoplitaspis is a genus of chasmataspidid, an extinct group of aquatic arthropods. Fossils of Hoplitaspis have been discovered in Late Ordovician deposits of the Lagerstätte of the Big Hill Formation exposed at Stonington Peninsula in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, United States. Its generic name is derived from the hoplites (Ancient Greek citizen-soldiers) and the Ancient Greek word άσπίς (aspis, meaning "shield"). The specific name hiawathai honors Hiawatha, a Native American leader and co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy.[1]
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