Falanapis

{{Taxobox

|name = Falanapis

|status = fossil

|fossil_range = Early Arenig{{cite journal

|last=Sepkoski

|first=Jack

|title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)

|journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology

|volume=364

|issue=

|page=560

|year=2002

|url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class

|doi=

|id=

|access-date=2008-01-12

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class

|archive-date=2006-09-05

}}

|regnum = Animalia

|phylum = Arthropoda

|classis = Trilobita

|superfamilia =

|genus = Falanapis

}}

Falanapis is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.

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