| Acrodirotes Temporal range: Dresbachian [1] | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | † Artiopoda |
| Class: | † Trilobita |
| Order: | † Ptychopariida |
| Family: | † Acrocephalitidae |
| Genus: | † Acrodirotes Öpik, 1967 |
Acrodirotes is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period. [1]