Asteropyge

Asteropyge
Temporal range: Upper Emsian to Lower and Middle Eifelian
Asteropyge fossil from Devonian, Iran
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Phacopida
Suborder:
Phacopina
Superfamily:
Acastoidea
Family:
Acastidae
Genus:
Asteropyge

Hawle & Corda, 1847
species
  • A. punctata (Steininger, 1831) (type) synonym Olenus punctatus
  • A. boeckae Van Viersen, Taghon & Magrean, 2019
  • A. eonia Van Viersen, Taghon & Magrean, 2019
  • A. filoxenia Van Viersen, Taghon & Magrean, 2019
  • A. lauchensis Basse, 2003
  • A. perforata olpensis (Basse, 2003)
  • A. perforata perforata Morzadec, 2003
  • A. plana Basse, 2003
  • A. pruemensis Basse, 2003
  • A. remscheidensis Basse, 2003
  • A. schoeneckenensis Basse, 2003

Asteropyge is an extinct genus of trilobite. It lived from the end of the Lower Devonian (upper Emsian) into the Middle Devonian (lower and upper Eifelian), in what are today France (Armorican Massif), Germany (Eifel area) and Iran.[1][2]

  1. ^ Bignon, Arnaud; Crônier, Catherine (2013). "The systematics and phylogeny of the Devonian subfamily Asteropyginae (Trilobita: Phacopida)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (6): 1–32. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.804008. hdl:11336/32076. S2CID 85891013.
  2. ^ Viersen, Allart P. VAN; Taghon, Peter; Magrean, Benedikt (2019-02-26). "Early Middle Devonian trilobites and events in the Nismes – Vireux-Molhain area, southern border of the Dinant Synclinorium (Belgium, northern France)". Geologica Belgica. 22 (1–2): 7–33. doi:10.20341/gb.2019.001. ISSN 1374-8505.