Acanthopyge

Acanthopyge; Temporal range: Middle Silurian to Middle Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Acanthopyge sp., Devonian, Morocco
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Order:	Lichida
Family:	Lichidae
Genus:	Acanthopyge; Hawle & Corda, 1847
Species
	A. haueri (Barrande, 1846) (type) synonyms Lichas haueri, A. leuchtenbergii; A. consanguinea (Clarke, 1894) synonym Arges consanguineus[1];
Synonyms
	Euarges, Mephiarges, Diplolichas, Lobopyge

Acanthopyge is an extinct genus of lichid trilobite that lived during the Devonian. 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.[2][3]

References

Whittington, H.B. (1956). "Beecher's Lichid Protaspis and Acanthopyge consanguinea (Trilobita)". Journal of Paleontology. 30 (5): 1200–1204. JSTOR 1300618.
"About fake A. sp".
"A. consanguinea".

Sources

External links

Trilobite info (Sam Gon III)

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[1] Whittington, H.B. (1956). "Beecher's Lichid Protaspis and Acanthopyge consanguinea (Trilobita)". Journal of Paleontology. 30 (5): 1200–1204. JSTOR 1300618.

[Handful-2] "About fake A. sp".

[Handful2-3] "A. consanguinea".