Falanaspis

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Falanaspis
Temporal range: Early Arenig [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade:† Artiopoda
Class:† Trilobita
Order:† Asaphida
Family:† Alsataspididae
Genus:† Falanaspis
Tjernvik, 1956

Falanaspis is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, [1] a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
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