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Dienstina

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Trilobita

Family
  
Phacopidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Phacopida

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Afrops, Acernaspis, Ductina, Ananaspis, Trimerocephalus

Dienstina is a trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the lower Devonian in what is now Germany. It was described by Richter and Richter in 1931, and the type species is Dienstina diensti, which the authors had originally assigned to the genus Phacopidella in 1923. The type locality was in Oberscheld, Rhenish Massif.

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Dienstina Wikipedia