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Hammannopyge

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Trilobita

Family
  
Cheiruridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Phacopida

Rank
  
Genus

Hammanopyge is a trilobite in the order Phacopida (family Cheiruridae), that existed during the upper Ordovician in what is now Scotland. It was described by Pribyl and Vanek in 1985, and the type species is Hammanopyge unica, which was originally described under the genus Acidaspis by Thomson in 1857. The type locality was the Balclatchie Formation.

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Hammannopyge Wikipedia