Kingdom Animalia Class Trilobita Suborder Phacopina Rank Genus | Phylum Arthropoda Order Phacopida Family Pterygometopidae | |
Similar Illaenus tauricornis, Hoplolichoides conicotuberculatus, Pliomera, Cybele bellatula, Cyrtometopus | ||
Estoniops is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, that existed during the upper Ordovician in what is now Estonia. It was described by Mannil in 1958, and the type species is Estoniops exilis, which was originally described under the genus Acaste by Eichwald in 1858. Its generic name is derived from the country in which it was first discovered.
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