| Raphiophoridae Temporal range:
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| Curled Ampyx nasutus showing the cephalon, genal spines & glabellar spine | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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.
