''Deltacephalaspis'' is an extinct genus of

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s in the order

Phacopida 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 Phacopida had 8 to 19 thoraci ...

. It contains four species, ''D. comis'', ''D. magister'', ''D. retrospina'', and ''D. tumida''. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Belén, Icla and

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and the Gydo Formation of

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Calmoniidae Phacopida genera Emsian life Devonian trilobites of Africa Fossils of South Africa Devonian trilobites of South America Devonian Bolivia Fossils of Bolivia Fossil taxa described in 1979 {{phacopida-stub