''Acanthopyge'' is an extinct

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of lichid

trilobite Trilobites (; meaning "three-lobed entities") are extinction, extinct marine arthropods that form the class (biology), class Trilobita. One of the earliest groups of arthropods to appear in the fossil record, trilobites were among the most succ ...

that lived during the

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...

. Very few ''A. consanguinea'' from the Devonian of Oklahoma have been found, and only a handful of complete specimens from Morocco, and many so-called ''Acanthopyge''-specimens from Morocco are fake.

References

Sources

''Photos of A. consanguinea''

External links

'' Trilobite info (Sam Gon III)''
Lichida Silurian trilobites Devonian trilobites of North America Fossils of Morocco Fossils of the United States Silurian first appearances Middle Devonian genus extinctions Paleozoic life of Ontario Paleozoic life of the Northwest Territories {{lichida-stub