
Phacopida
Sign in to savePhacopida ("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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- Parent taxon
- Trilobita
- Image
- Tribnod1.jpg
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- end time
- 359000000-
- Commons category
- Phacopida
- taxon rank
- order
- taxon name
- Phacopida
- topic's main category
- Category:Phacopida
- start time
- 497000000-
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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.
== Characteristics == left|thumb|Reconstruction of Phacops ([[Phacopidae, left) and Walliserops (Acastidae, right)]]
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