Cyclopites

Cyclopites
Temporal range: Furongian
Cyclopites vulgaris (Raasch, 1939); Saint Lawrence Formation; Furongian; Baraboo, Wisconsin. Due to peculiarities of preservation, only the right half of the body is preserved on this specimen. Note the long, slender telson at the posterior end of the animal, and the location of the eye near the midline. Collected by Kenneth E. Gass. Specimen is 4cm long.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
(unranked): †Artiopoda
(unranked): †Vicissicaudata
Order: †Aglaspidida
Family: †Tremaglaspididae
Genus: †Cyclopites
Raasch, 1951[1]
Species:
†C. vulgaris
Binomial name
†Cyclopites vulgaris
Raasch, 1939

Cyclopites is a genus of aglaspidid arthropods that lived in shallow seas in what is now Wisconsin during Late Cambrian times. It is distinguished from other aglaspidids by the extreme proximity of its eyes. The genus earns its name from this presence of what might appear to be a single, central eye.[2]

  1. ^ Raasch, G.O. (1951) Revision of the Croixan dikelocephalids. Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science 44: 137-151
  2. ^ Hesselbo, S.P. (1992) Aglaspidida (Arthropoda) from the Upper Cambrian of Wisconsin. Journal of Paleontology 66: 885–923