Asthenopsis

Asthenopsis
Temporal range: Cambrian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Ptychopariida
Family: †Ptychopariidae
Genus: †Asthenopsis
Whitehouse, 1939
Species
  • A. butorosa
  • A. levior (type)
  • A. opalensis
  • A. queenslandica
  • A. rhinostrongyla
  • A. unquinsepta

Asthenopsis is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Cambrian Period, which lasted from approximately 542 to 488 million years ago.

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