''Anisopyge'' is an
extinct
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genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
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 At ...
belonging to the order
Proetida
Proetida is an order of trilobite that lived from the Ordovician to the Permian. It was the last order of trilobite to go extinct, finally dying out in the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
Description
These typically small trilobites resem ...
and family
Phillipsiidae
Phillipsiidae is a family of proetid trilobites, the various genera of which comprise some of the last of the trilobites, with a range that extended from the Kinderhookian epoch of the Lower Mississippian, to the end of Changhsingian age at Pe ...
.
Specimens have been found in
Permian
The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Paleoz ...
beds in North and Central America.
The genus was among the last surviving trilobite groups. It may have evolved from ''
Sevillea'', diversifying to fill empty ecological niches.
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Species
*''A. cooperi'' Brezinski 1992[
*''A. inornata'' Girty 1909]
References
Paleozoic life
Proetida
Trilobite genera
Permian trilobites
Cisuralian first appearances
Guadalupian extinctions
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