Phacopida ("lens-face") is an order of trilobites that lived from the Late Cambrian to the Late Devonian. It is made up of a morphologically diverse assemblage of taxa in three related suborders.
Ptychopariida is a large, heterogeneous order of trilobite containing some of the most primitive species known. The earliest species occurred in the second half of the Lower Cambrian, and the last species did not survive the Ordovician–Silurian extinction event.
The Phacopina comprise a suborder of the trilobite order Phacopida. Species belonging to the Phacopina lived from the Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian) through the end of the Upper Devonian (Famennian). The one unique feature that distinguishes Phacopina from all other trilobites are the very large, separately set lenses without a common cornea of the compound eye.
Dalmanitoidea is a superfamily of trilobites in the order Phacopida, containing the three families Dalmanitidae, Diaphanometopidae and Prosopiscidae.
Dalmanitidae is a family of trilobites in the order Phacopida that lived from the Floian (Ordovician) to the Devonian and includes 33 genera.
Malvinella buddeae is a species of trilobite which lived in La Paz, Bolivia during the Devonian period.
Eldredgeia is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, suborder Phacopina, family Calmoniidae. This genus comes from the Devonian of South America and South Africa, usually found in nodules. The trilobite Eldredgeia venusta, from Bolivia, is the most common South American trilobite on today's fossil market, and even then it is not all that common. This genus has a spiny pygidium and usually the eye facets are well preserved.
Calymenina is a suborder of the trilobite order Phacopida.
Acastoidea is a superfamily of trilobites from the order Phacopida, suborder Phacopina. This superfamily is divided into two families, Acastidae and Calmoniidae. This superfamily is distinguishable from the Phacopidae in that eyes are closer to the glabella and that the glabella has lobes, unlike the genera in Phacopidae. Acastoidea was first proposed by T.J.A. Reijers in 1972.
Acastidae is a family of trilobites in the order Phacopida, suborder Phacopina, superfamily Acastoidea, containing the following genera:
Acastava is an extinct genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida, from the upper Pragian to Emsian period of the Devonian.
Achatella is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida, which existed in what is now Ontario, Canada. It was named by Delo in 1935, and the type species is Achatella achates, which was originally assigned to the genus Dalmanites by Billings in 1860. Achatella also contains the species Achatella billingsi, and Achatella truncatocaudata.
Aegrotocatellus is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida, which existed in what is now Nunavut, Canada. It was named by Adrain and Edgecombe in 1995, and the type species is Aegrotocatellus jaggeri, a species named after British musician Mick Jagger.
Ceraurinus is an extinct genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida. It contains one species, C. serratus.
Deltacephalaspis is an extinct genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida. It contains four species, D. comis, D. magister, D. retrospina, and D. tumida. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Belén, Icla and Gamoneda Formations of Bolivia and the Gydo Formation of South Africa.
Kozlowskiaspis is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, that existed during the lower Devonian in what is now Bolivia. It was described by Branisa and Vanek in 1973, and the type species is Kozlowskiapsis superna. It also contains the species K. australis and K. borealis. The type locality was the Icla Formation.
Encrinuridae is a family of trilobite within the order Phacopida that lived in what would be Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America from the middle Ordovician to the early Devonian from 479 to 412.3 million years ago, existing for approximately 66.7 million years.
Calymene celebra is a Silurian species of trilobites of the order Phacopida and also the state fossil of Wisconsin. It is found in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
Cheirurina is a suborder of the trilobite order Phacopida. Known representatives range from the uppermost Cambrian to the end of the Middle Devonian (Givetian). Cheirurina is made up of a morphologically diverse group of related families.
Librostoma is a subclass of trilobites defined by having a natant hypostome, which is a hypostome that is free from the anterior doublure and aligned with the anterior of the glabella, this is unlike a conterminant hypostome, which is attached to the exoskeleton.
