Chasmops

{{Short description|Genus of trilobites}}

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| image = Trilobit IGP4540.jpg

| image_caption = Chasmops sp.

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Trilobita

| ordo = Phacopida

| familia = Pterygometopidae

| genus=Chasmops

| genus_authority = McCoy, 1849

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

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Chasmops is a trilobite in the order Phacopida that existed during the upper Ordovician in what is now Estonia. It was described by McCoy in 1849, and the type species is Chasmops odini, which was originally described under the genus Calymene by Eichwald in 1840. It also contains the species C. maxima.[http://www.trilobites.info/generic_names_Jell%26Adrain2003.pdf Available Generic Names for Trilobites] P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.