| Sycophantia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | † Artiopoda |
| Class: | † Trilobita |
| Order: | † Phacopida |
| Family: | † Cheiruridae |
| Genus: | † Sycophantia Fortey, 1980 |
Sycophantia is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the later part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, [1] approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.