Cryphops

Cryphops
Temporal range: Late Devonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Phacopida
Family: †Phacopidae
Genus: †Cryphops
Richter & Richter, 1926

Cryphops is an extinct genus of trilobite in the family Phacopidae. There are at least three described species in Cryphops.

Species

These three species belong to the genus Cryphops:

Palaeobiology

Life history

Cryphops ensae had a pattern of ontogenetic development more similar to Phacops than to Trimerocephalus.

References

  1. ↑ "Cryphops". GBIF. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "The Paleobiology Database, genus Cryphops". Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  3. ↑ Crônier, C.; Bartzsch, K.; Weyer, D.; Feist, R. (March 1999). "Larval morphology and ontogeny of a late Devonian Phacopid with reduced sight from Thuringia, Germany". Journal of Paleontology. 73 (2): 240–255. doi:10.1017/S0022336000027748. ISSN 0022-3360. Retrieved 18 September 2026 – via Cambridge Core.