Delops

Delops
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Dalmanitidae
Genus: Delops
Rickards, 1964

Delops is a trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the upper Silurian in what is now England. It was described by Rickards in 1964, and the type species is Delops obtusicaudatus, which was originally described under the genus Phacops by Salter in 1849. The type locality was the Middle Coldwell Beds.[1]

References

  1. Available Generic Names for Trilobites P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.

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