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Deltacephalaspis

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Deltacephalaspis
Temporal range: Emsian
~409–392 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Calmoniidae
Genus: Deltacephalaspis
Eldredge and Ormiston, 1979

Deltacephalaspis is an extinct genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida. It contains four species, D. comis, D. magister, D. retrospina, and D. tumida.[citation needed] Fossils of the genus have been found in the Belén, Icla and Gamoneda Formations of Bolivia and the Gydo Formation of South Africa.[1]

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