''Metacryphaeus'' is an extinct genus of
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 ...
s from the family
Calmoniidae
Calmoniidae is a family of trilobites from 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 rel ...
. ''Metacryphaeus'' fossils have been found in
Bolivia
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,
Brazil
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,
South Africa
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and
Uruguay
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.
The genus was named in 1907.
[F. R. C. Reed. 1907. A new species of '']Lichas
In Greek mythology, Lichas ( ; ) was Heracles' servant, who brought the The Shirt of Nessus, poisoned shirt from Deianira to Hercules because of Deianira's jealousy of Iole, which killed him.
Mythology
Lichas brought to his master the deadly ...
''. ''Geological Magazine'' 54:396-400
References
Phacopida genera
Calmoniidae
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