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Penarosa

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Clade:†Artiopoda
Class:†Trilobita
Order:†Ptychopariida
Penarosa
Temporal range: Cambrian[1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Ptychopariida
Family: †Nepeidae
Genus: †Penarosa
Öpik, 1970

Penarosa is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Middle Cambrian (Ptychagnostus atavus Zone to Ptychagnostus punctuosus Zone),[1] approximately 505 to 500 million years ago.

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