Phacops

Phacops

Taxobox
name = "Phacops"


image_width = 150px
image_caption = Phacops stokesi (Edwards), on display at the Natural History Museum, London
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Trilobita
ordo = Phacopida
superordo = Phacopina
superfamilia = Phacopoidea
familia = Phacopidae
genus = "Phacops"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text

"Phacops" ("Lens-face") is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida, suborder Phacopina, superfamily Phacopoidea. They have a very widespread distribution, being found in Morocco, Europe, Australia and North America. They lived during the Devonian and are great index fossils. Often confused/combined with "Paciphacops", "Kainops", "Reedops", "Eldredgeops", "Chotecops", "Viaphacops", "Drotops", "Eophacops" and the superfamily Acastoidea.

Some known species and locations:

*"Phacops rana"
**"Phacops rana rana", New York.
**"Phacops rana crassituberculata", Indiana and Ohio.
**"Phacops rana norwoodensis", Iowa.
*"Phacops cristata bombifrons", Ohio.
*"Phacops schlotheimi", Germany.
*"Phacops speculator", Morocco.
*"Phacops stokesi", England
*"Phacops recurvus", Gotland.
*"Phacops latifrons", France.
*"Phacops brocki", Australia.


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  • phacops — ˈfāˌkäps noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from phac + ops : a genus (the type of the family Phacopidae) comprising Silurian and Devonian trilobites with a large rounded glabella and a large pygidium …   Useful english dictionary

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