Dipleura

Dipleura Temporal range: Late Ordovician-Mid Devonian ~460–383 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil of D. dekayi from United States, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Order:	Phacopida
Family:	Homalonotidae
Genus:	Dipleura Green, 1832
Type species
D. dekayi

Dipleura is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida. It was described by Green in 1832, and the type species is Dipleura dekayi. The type locality was in the Hamilton Group in New York.^[1]

These fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivores lived during the middle Devonian and Ordovician periods from 460.9 to 383.7 Ma.^[2]