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:
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| Acanthopyge sp., Devonian, Morocco | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Lichida |
| Family: | †Lichidae |
| Genus: | †Acanthopyge Hawle & Corda, 1847 |
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Euarges, Mephiarges, Diplolichas, Lobopyge | |
References
edit- ^ Whittington, H.B. (1956). "Beecher's Lichid Protaspis and Acanthopyge consanguinea (Trilobita)". Journal of Paleontology. 30 (5): 1200–1204. JSTOR 1300618.
- ^ "About fake A. sp". Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
- ^ "A. consanguinea".
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