Anchiopsis

Anchiopsis Temporal range: Early-Mid Devonian ~412–384  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	† Trilobita
Order:	† Phacopida
Family:	† Dalmanitidae
Genus:	† Anchiopsis Delo, 1935

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]

Distribution

Fossils of Anchiopsis have been found in Canada (Ontario), Colombia (Floresta Formation, Floresta, Boyacá), ^[2] and the United States (Indiana and New York). ^[3]

References

• Paleontology portal

1. Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.
2. Morzadec et al., 2015, p.344
3. Anchiopsis at Fossilworks.org

Bibliography

• 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

• Anchiopsis in the Paleobiology Database