Australopyge

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Australopyge
Temporal range: Arenig
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Asaphida
Family: Asaphidae
Genus: Australopyge
Harrington & Leanza, 1957
Species
  • A. acanthura
  • A. russoi

Australopyge is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period,[1] approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.

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