Anisopyge

{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobite}}

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Anisopyge is an extinct genus of trilobite belonging to the order Proetida and family Phillipsiidae.{{cite journal |first1=R. M. |last1=Owens |year=2003 |title=The stratigraphical distribution and extinctions of Permian trilobites |journal=Special Papers in Palaeontology |volume=70 |pages=377–397 }} Specimens have been found in Permian beds in North and Central America.{{cite journal |first1=C.K. |last1=Chamberlain |year=1970 |title=Permian trilobite species from central Wyoming and west Texas |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=44 |number=6 |pages=1049–1054}}{{cite journal |first1=C.K. |last1=Chamberlain |year=1972 |title=Evolution of the Permian trilobite Anisopyge |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=46 |number=4 |pages=503–508 |jstor=1302996}}

The genus was among the last surviving trilobite groups. It may have evolved from Sevillea, diversifying to fill empty ecological niches.

Species

  • A. cooperi Brezinski 1992{{cite journal |last1=Brezinski |first1=David K. |title=Permian trilobites from West Texas |journal=Journal of Paleontology |date=November 1992 |volume=66 |issue=6 |pages=924–943 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000021028|bibcode=1992JPal...66..924B |s2cid=130757075 }}
  • A. hyperbola Chamberlain 1972
  • A. inornata Girty 1909{{cite journal |first1=J. L. |last1=Cisne |year=1971 |title=Paleoecology of trilobites of the Kaibab limestone (Permian) in Arizona, Utah, and Nevada |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=45 |number=3 |pages=525–533}}
  • A. perannulata Shumard 1858{{cite journal |first1=F. |last1=Sour-Tovar |first2=S. A. |last2=Quiroz-Barroso |first3=J. |last3=Quiroz-Barragán |first4=M. A. |last4=Torres-Martínez |first5=S. |last5=González-Mora |year=2016 |title=Presencia de Anisopyge perannulata y Ditomopyge cf. D. whitei (Trilobita, Proetidae) en el Pérmico (Guadalupiano medio) de la Formación Las Delicias, Coahuila, norte de México |journal=Paleontología Mexicana |volume=5 |pages=103–109 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311667226 |access-date=22 February 2022}}

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