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Cyphaspis
Temporal range: Late Ordovician - Late Devonian
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Cyphaspis

Burmeister 1843
Type species
Phacops ceratophthalmus
Goldfuss 1843
Species
  • C. anticostiensis
  • C. bellula
  • C. bowingensis
  • C. burmeisteri
  • C. ceratophthalma (Goldfuss 1843) type
  • C. ceratophthalmoides
  • C. clintoni
  • C. coelebs
  • C. convexa
  • C. craspedota
  • C. dereimsi
  • C. diadema
  • C. gaultieri
  • C. hoepfneri
  • C. hudsonica
  • C. hybrida
  • C. hydrocephala
  • C. matulina
  • C. megalops
  • C. minuscula
  • C. partim
  • C. parvula
  • C. planifrons
  • C. punctillosa
  • C. raripustulosus
  • C. sibiricaSchmidt 1886
  • C. spinulocervix
  • C. spryi
  • C. stephanophora
  • C. stigmatopthalmus
  • C. trentonensis
  • C. trigoda
  • C. yassensis


Cyphaspis is a genus of small trilobite that lived from the Late Ordovician to the Late Devonian. Fossils have been found in marine strata in what is now Europe, Africa and North America. Various species had a compact body, and a large, bulbous glabellum. Many species had long spines arranged similarly to closely related genera, such as Otarian, Otarionella, Chamaeleoaspis, and Namuropyge.

Cyphaspis sp. from the Tafilalet

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