Thysanopyge Temporal range: Early
Arenig
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Trilobita |
Order: | † Asaphida |
Family: | † Asaphidae |
Genus: | †
Thysanopyge Kayser 1898 |
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Thysanopyge is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived in what is now South America during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, [1] a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago. [1]
Fossils of Thysanopyge have been found in: [2]