| Torifera Temporal range: Dresbachian [1] | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | † Artiopoda |
| Class: | † Trilobita |
| Order: | † Ptychopariida |
| Family: | † Diceratocephalidae |
| Genus: | † Torifera Wolfart, 1974 |
Torifera is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period. [1]
