Leonaspis
{{Short description|Genus of trilobites}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = Leonaspis
| fossil_range = Late Ordovician to Middle Devonian
| image = Leonaspis and Paciphacops.jpg
| image_caption = Leonaspis williamsi (lower left) with Paciphacops raymondi (upper right)
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Trilobita
| ordo = Odontopleurida
| familia = Odontopleuridae
| genus = Leonaspis
| genus_authority =
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
}}
Leonaspis is a widespread genus of odontopleurid trilobite that lived from the Late Ordovician to the late Middle Devonian.{{Cite journal|last1=Feist|first1=Raimund|last2=McNAMARA|first2=Kenneth J.|date=September 2007|title=Biodiversity, distribution and patterns of extinction of the last odontopleuroid trilobites during the Devonian (Givetian, Frasnian)|journal=Geological Magazine|volume=144|issue=5|pages=777–796|doi=10.1017/s0016756807003779|bibcode=2007GeoM..144..777F |s2cid=128918534 |issn=1469-5081}} Fossils of various species have been found on all continents except Antarctica.
Sources
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 61)
- [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=19814 Leonaspis] in the Paleobiology Database
References
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Category:Odontopleurida genera
Category:Ordovician trilobites
Category:Trilobites of Oceania
Category:Trilobites of North America
Category:Trilobites of South America
Category:Late Ordovician first appearances
Category:Middle Devonian genus extinctions
Category:Paleozoic life of the Northwest Territories
Category:Paleozoic life of Nunavut
Category:Paleozoic life of Quebec
Category:Paleozoic life of Yukon
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