Anchiopsis is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida, which existed in what is now New York, U.S.A. It was described by Delo in 1935, and the type species is Anchiopsis anchiops, which was originally described as Calymene anchiops by Green in 1832.[1]
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| Genus: | Anchiopsis Delo, 1935
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Distribution
editFossils of Anchiopsis have been found in Canada (Ontario), Colombia (Floresta Formation, Floresta, Boyacá),[2] and the United States (Indiana and New York).[3]
References
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- ^ Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.
- ^ Morzadec et al., 2015, p.344
- ^ Anchiopsis at Fossilworks.org
Bibliography
edit- Morzadec, Pierre; Mergl, Michal; Villarroel, Carlos; Janvier, Philippe; Racheboeuf, Patrick R. (2015), "Trilobites and inarticulate brachiopods from the Devonian Floresta Formation of Colombia: a review" (PDF), Bulletin of Geosciences, 90: 331–358, doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1515, retrieved 2017-04-04
External links
edit- Anchiopsis in the Paleobiology Database
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