Nileidae

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Nileidae
Temporal range: Cambrian to Ordovician
Symphysis fossil from the Ordovician period, Iran.jpg
Symphysurus from Iran, Ordovician
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Platypeltoides magrebiensis and aglaspidid from early Ordovician Fezouata Formation, Morocco
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Asaphida
Superfamily: Cyclopygoidea
Family: Nileidae
Angelin 1854
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Nileidae is a family of trilobites of the Asaphida order.

These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Ordovician and Cambrian periods. [1]

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