Ogygopsis
Sign in to saveOgygopsis is a genus of trilobite from the Cambrian of Antarctica and North America, specifically the Burgess Shale. It is the most common fossil in the Mt. Stephen fossil beds there, but rare in other Cambrian faunas. Its major characteristics are a prominent glabella with eye ridges, lack of pleural spines, a large spineless pygidium about as long as the thorax or cephalon, and its length: up to 12 cm. File:Ogygopsis reconstruction.jpg|Reconstruction of Ogygopsis klotzi in the Burgess Shale File:Royal Tyrrell Ogygopsis klotzi.jpg|At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
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It sits within the topics Burgess Shale fossils, Cambrian trilobites and Corynexochida genera.
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Ogygopsis is a genus of trilobite from the Cambrian of Antarctica and North America, specifically the Burgess Shale. It is the most common fossil in the Mt. Stephen fossil beds there, but rare in other Cambrian faunas. Its major characteristics are a prominent glabella with eye ridges, lack of pleural spines, a large spineless pygidium about as long as the thorax or cephalon, and its length: up to 12 cm.
File:Ogygopsis reconstruction.jpg|Reconstruction of Ogygopsis klotzi in the Burgess Shale File:Royal Tyrrell Ogygopsis klotzi.jpg|At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
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