Ptychoparopsis

Ptychoparopsis
Temporal range: Botomian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Ptychopariida
Family: Alokistocaridae
Genus: Ptychoparopsis
Hupé, 1953

Ptychoparopsis is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Botomian stage, which lasted from approximately 524 to 518.5 million years ago. This faunal stage was part of the Cambrian Period.