Lachnostoma Temporal range: Early Arenig | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Trilobita |
Order: | † Asaphida |
Family: | † Asaphidae |
Genus: | † Lachnostoma Ross, 1951 |
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Lachnostoma 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.