Acidaspis

{{short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = Darriwilian to Ludlow {{fossilrange|460.5|418.7}}

|image = Acidaspis elliptica.jpg

|image_caption = Acidaspis elliptica

|taxon = Acidaspis

|authority = Murchison, 1839

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision =

• A. brightii
• A. bucco
• A. cincinnatiensis
• A. magnospina
• A. viruana
• A. barrandeiFletcher & Salter, non Angelin. (P1. YIII. figs. 1-3.) 1848.

|synonyms = Pseudomonaspis Richter & Richter, 1917{{cite journal |last1=WHITTINGTON |first1=H. B. |last2=MacPhee |first2=R.D.E. |year=1996 |title=Type and Other Species of Odontopleuridae (Trilobita) |journal= Journal of Paleontology |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=504–520 |jstor=1300287}}

}}

Acidaspis is an extinct genus of odontopleurid trilobite from the Ordovician to Silurian of North America and Europe.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=19777 The Paleobiology Database Acidaspis entry] Accessed 29 November 2010 Although small, it had long spines along its body.