''Forteyops'' is a genus of

trilobite Trilobites (; meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the ...

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 thorac ...

, that existed during the lower

Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period million years ago (Mya) to the start of the Silurian Period Mya. ...

in what is now the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five ma ...

. It was described by Pribyl and Vanek in 1985, and the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...

is ''Forteyops sexapugia'', which was originally described under the genus '' Kawina'' by Ross in 1951. The

type locality Type locality may refer to: * Type locality (biology) * Type locality (geology) See also * Local (disambiguation) * Locality (disambiguation) {{disambiguation ...

was the

Garden City Formation The Garden City Formation is a geologic formation in Idaho. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period. See also * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Idaho This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigrap ...

Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...

.Available Generic Names for Trilobites
P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.

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External links

''Forteyops''
at the

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Phacopida genera Fossil taxa described in 1985 Ordovician trilobites Fossils of the United States Cheiruridae Ordovician trilobites of North America {{phacopida-stub