Cyphaspis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|449|383|Late Ordovician-Late Devonian}}

| image = Cyphaspis NMNH.jpg

| image_caption = Cyphaspis sp. from Morocco

| taxon = Cyphaspis

| authority = Burmeister 1843

| type_species = Phacops ceratophthalma

| type_species_authority = Goldfuss 1843

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Cyphaspis is a genus of small trilobite that lived from the Late Ordovician to the Late Devonian. Fossils have been found in marine strata in what is now Europe, Africa and North America. Various species had a compact body, and a large, bulbous glabellum. Many species had long spines arranged similarly to closely related genera, such as Otarian, Otarionella, Chamaeleoaspis, and Namuropyge.

Species

The following species in the genus Cyphaspis have been described:

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  • C. anticostiensis
  • C. bellula
  • C. bluhmi Van Viersen & Holland, 2016{{Cite journal|author1=Allart P. van Viersen |author2=Dieter Holland |year=2016 |title=Morphological trends and new species of Cyphaspis (Trilobita, Otarioninae) in the Devonian of Morocco, Turkey, Germany and Belgium |journal=Geologica Belgica |volume=19 |issue=3–4 |pages=251–271 |doi=10.20341/gb.2016.008 |url=http://popups.ulg.ac.be/1374-8505/index.php?id=5350 |doi-access=free }}
  • C. boninoi Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. bowingensis
  • C. buchbergeri Adrain & Chatterton, 1996{{cite journal| last1=Adrain | first1=Jonathan M. | last2=Chatterton | first2=Brian D.E. | year=1996 | title=The Otarionine Trilobite Cyphaspis, with New Species from the Silurian of Northwestern Canada | journal=Journal of Paleontology | volume=70 | issue=1 | pages=100–110 | doi=10.1017/S0022336000023131 | jstor=1306372 | bibcode=1996JPal...70..100A | s2cid=102338819 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1306372 | access-date=19 April 2021| url-access=subscription }}
  • C. burmeisteri
  • C. ceratophthalma Goldfuss, 1843 (type)
  • C. ceratophthalmoides
  • C. clintoni
  • C. coelebs
  • C. convexa
  • C. craspedota
  • C. dereimsi
  • C. diadema
  • C. eximia Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. foumzguidensis Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. gaultieri
  • C. globosus
  • C. heisingi Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. hoepfneri
  • C. hudsonica
  • C. hybrida
  • C. hydrocephala
  • C. ihmadii Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. insolata Van Viersen, Taghon & Magrean, 2019{{Cite journal|author1=Allart P. van Viersen |author2=Peter Taghon |author3=Benedikt Magrean |year=2019 |title=Early Middle Devonian trilobites and events in the Nismes – Vireux-Molhain area, southern border of the Dinant Synclinorium (Belgium, northern France) |journal=Geologica Belgica |volume=22 |issue=1–2 |pages=7–33 |doi=10.20341/gb.2019.001 |doi-access=free }}
  • C. iuxta Van Viersen, Taghon & Magrean, 2019
  • C. juergenhollandi Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. khraidensis Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. kippingi Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. koimeterionensis Van Viersen & Vanherle, 2018{{Cite journal|author1=Allart P. van Viersen |author2=Willy Vanherle |year=2018 |title=The rise and fall of Late Devonian (Frasnian) trilobites from Belgium: taxonomy, biostratigraphy and events |journal=Geologica Belgica |volume=21 |issue=1–2 |pages=73–94 |url=https://popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/index.php?id=5944 |doi=10.20341/gb.2018.005 |doi-access=free }}
  • C. kweberi Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. lerougei Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. lowei Adrain & Chatterton, 1996
  • C. mactavishi Adrain & Chatterton, 1996
  • C. maharchensis Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. matulina
  • C. megalops
  • C. minuscula
  • C. munii Adrain & Chatterton, 1996
  • C. partim
  • C. parvula
  • C. planifrons
  • C. punctillosa
  • C. raripustulosus
  • C. sibirica Schmidt, 1886
  • C. smeenki Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. spinulocervix
  • C. spryi
  • C. stephanophora
  • C. stigmatopthalmus
  • C. tadachachtensis Van Viersen & Holland, 2016
  • C. trentonensis
  • C. trigoda
  • C. walteri
  • C. yassensis

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Distribution

Fossils of Cyphaspis have been found in:[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=21134 Cyphaspis] at Fossilworks.org

;Devonian

Colombia (Floresta Formation, Altiplano Cundiboyacense), the Czech Republic, Morocco, United States (Alaska, Iowa, Oklahoma), and Uzbekistan

;Silurian

Canada (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario), the United Kingdom, and the United States (Indiana, New York, Tennessee)

;Ordovician

Sweden, and the United States (Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri)

References

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