Pemphigaspis
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| Pemphigaspis Temporal range: Dresbachian[1] | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Ptychopariida |
| Family: | †Catillicephalidae |
| Genus: | †Pemphigaspis Hall, 1863 |
Pemphigaspis is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.[1]
