Raphiophoridae Temporal range:
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Curled Ampyx nasutus showing the cephalon, genal spines & glabellar spine | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Trilobita |
Order: | †Asaphida |
Superfamily: | †Trinucleioidea |
Family: | †Raphiophoridae Angelin, 1854 |
Subfamilies | |
see text for genera | |
Synonyms | |
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Raphiophoridae is a family of small to average-sized trilobites that first occurred at the start of the Ordovician and became extinct at the end of the Middle Silurian.