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Dianops

Dianops is a genus of phacopid trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the upper Devonian in what is now Germany. It was described by Richter and Richter in 1923, and the type species is Dianops limbatus, which was originally described under the genus Phacops by Richter in 1848. The type locality was in Saalfeld, Thuringia.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Phacopidae
Genus: Dianops
Richter & Richter, 1923

Dianops is a genus of phacopid trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the upper Devonian in what is now Germany. It was described by Richter and Richter in 1923, and the type species is Dianops limbatus, which was originally described under the genus Phacops by Richter in 1848. The type locality was in Saalfeld, Thuringia.1

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  1. Available Generic Names for Trilobites Archived 2018-09-30 at the Wayback Machine P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.
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