Emmrichops

Emmrichops is a genus of average size trilobite (about 6 centimetres or 2.4 inches), assigned to the Cyclopygidae family, that lived during the Middle Ordovician (Llanvirn), and have been found in what are today the Czech Republic and in Wales. Like other cyclopygids, it has huge eyes, that occupy almost the entire free cheeks (or librigenae), six thorax segments and a wide tail shield. Like the other cyclopygids, Emmrichops probably lived hunting plankton in the water column. Only one species, E. planicephala, has been described sofar.

Emmrichops
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Asaphida
Family: Cyclopygidae
Genus: Emmrichops
Marek, 1961
Species

Etymology

Emmrichops was named in honor of the German geologist Hermann Emmrich (1815–1879).

Distribution

  • Emmrichops planicephala is known from the Ordovician of Wales (Hustedograptus teretiusculus biozone, Llanfawr Mudstones Formation, Builth inlier, Llandeilian Stage of the Llanvirn Series) and the Czech Republic (Dobrotiva Formation, near Svatá Dobrotivá, Vokovice and Veleslavín, all Prague Basin).[1]


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