Gyrometopus
| Gyrometopus Temporal range:
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| Gyrometopus lineatus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Phacopida |
| Family: | †Diaphanometopidae |
| Genus: | †Gyrometopus Jaanusson 1975 |
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Gyrometopus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, approximately 479 to 472 million years ago.