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Forteyops

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Trilobita

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Phacopida

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Forteyops is a trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the lower Ordovician in what is now the United States. It was described by Pribyl and Vanek in 1985, and the type species is Forteyops sexapugia, which was originally described under the genus Kawina by Ross in 1951. The type locality was the Garden City Formation in Utah.

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Forteyops Wikipedia