Acastoides

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Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:†Trilobita
Order:†Phacopida
Acastoides
Temporal range: 428–392 Ma Middle Silurian (Wenlock) to Devonian (?Eifelian)
Acastoides zguilmensis, Devonian, Morocco
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Phacopida
Family: †Acastidae
Genus: †Acastoides
Delo, 1935
Species
  • A. henni (R. Richter, 1916) (type) = Acaste henni
  • A. constricta (Salter, 1864) synonyms Phacops (Acaste) downingiae constrictus, P. constrictus, Acaste (Acastoides) constrictus[1]
  • A. acutilobata (Knod, 1908)
  • A. gamonedensis
  • A. haddadi Chatterton, Fortey, Brett, Gibb & McKellar, 2006
  • A. insolitus Wolfart, 1968
  • A. maura Alberti, 1969
  • A. paeckelmanni R. Richter & E. Richter, 1939
  • A. poschmanni Basse & Müller, 2016[2]
  • A. zguilmensis Chatterton, Fortey, Brett, Gibb & McKellar, 2006

Acastoides is an extinct genus of trilobite that lived during the Silurian and Devonian. It has been found in Bolivia, France, Morocco, Poland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

  • A. constricta is found in the Silurian of the United Kingdom (Wenlock, Woolhope Shale, Worcestershire, Malvern).[3]

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