Lioharpes

{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobite}}

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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Early Devonian|Middle Devonian}}{{cite web |title=Lioharpes|url=https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4634676.html |website=www.Mindat.org}}

| image = Lioharpes venulosus (YPM IP 002718).jpg

| image_caption = Lioharpes venulosus

| taxon = Lioharpes

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Lioharpes is a genus of trilobites in the order Harpetida.{{cite journal |last1=Beech |first1=J. D. |last2=Lamsdell |first2=James C. |title=Phylogeny, disparity and mass extinction response in the trilobite order Harpetida |date=2021 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1399 |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=2205–2225 |ref=BEECH2021 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1399|bibcode=2021PPal....7.2205B |s2cid=238725336 }}{{cite web |title=Lioharpes |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=20659 |website=Paleobiology Database}}{{Cite web |last=III |first=Dr. Samuel M. Gon |title=Harpetida Fact Sheet |url=https://trilobites.info/ordharpetida.htm |access-date=2024-01-13 |website=trilobites.info}} The genus Eskoharpes possibly evolved from it.{{cite journal |last1=McNamara |first1=Kenneth J. |title=Patterns of Evolution and Extinction in the Last Harpetid Trilobites During the Late Devonian (Frasnian) |journal=Palaeontology |date=2009 |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=11–33 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00832.x |bibcode=2009Palgy..52...11M |s2cid=129912220 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00832.x}} It is synonymous with Fritchapsis.{{Cite web |title=A systematic revision of the family Harpetidae (Trilobita) {{!}} Western Australian Museum |url=http://museum.wa.gov.au/research/records-supplements/records/systematic-revision-family-harpetidae-trilobita |access-date=2024-01-13 |website=museum.wa.gov.au |language=en}}

Species

From the Paleobiology Database.

  • L. altaicus
  • L. bischofi
  • L. crassimargo
  • L. hastatus
  • L. montagnei
  • L. morocconensis
  • L. sculptus
  • L. vektori
  • L. venulosus

References