Acanthopyge

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]

Acanthopyge
Temporal range: Middle Silurian to Middle Devonian
Acanthopyge sp., Devonian, Morocco
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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

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".
  3. "A. consanguinea".

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