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Denckmannites

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Trilobita

Family
  
Phacopidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Phacopida

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Afrops, Ananaspis, Acernaspis, Trimerocephalus, Ductina

Denckmannites is a trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the upper Silurian in what is now the Czech Republic. It was described by Wedekind in 1914, and the type species is Denckmannites volborthi, which was originally described under the genus Phacops by Barrande in 1852. It also contains the species Denckmannites morator, and Denckmannites primaevus. The type locality was the Kopanina Formation.

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Denckmannites Wikipedia