Phacopida

Phacopida
Temporal range: Furongian – End Famennian, 497–359 Ma[1]
Dalmanites limulurus, a trilobite
of the suborder Phacopina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Phacopida
Salter, 1864
Suborders

Phacopida ("lens-face") is an order of trilobites that lived from the Late Cambrian to the Late Devonian. It is made up of a morphologically diverse assemblage of taxa in three related suborders.

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